“Peccadilloes” and “Missing Sleep” by Jane Ann Fuller
“Sometimes death
takes you by the throat, like burning leaves choke
and ochre light hangs thick as draperies across your living
room window where a slice of sky slips through
to remind you get outside, take a walk, breathe.“
Enjoy this audio recording of “Peccadilloes” and “Missing Sleep” by Jane Ann Fuller from Vol. 34:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy your copy here!
Jane Ann Devol Fuller is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a recipient of the James Boatwright II Poetry Prize. Her manuscript Half-Life (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2021) was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards. The collaboration Revenants: A Story of Many Lives was made possible with a grant from the Ohio Arts Council. Work appears in Verse Daily, Shenandoah, Main Street Rag, One Art, Blue Earth Review, Anti-Heroine Chic, BODY, The Ekphrastic Review, I Though I Heard A Cardinal Sing, On The Seawall, and elsewhere.
