JESSE SPOSATO

SOMETHING DIFFERENT

we walked around in the rain with soda can boxes over our heads for protection. actually, we hardly walked, but ran rather briskly through the streets of a neighborhood where we were unfamiliar. it was hard to look up, so we used our peripheral vision and relied on one another to pay some sort of attention to where we were going. (I felt the same way about wearing a hood in the winter and the way it impairs your ability to look straight ahead of you). 

sealed with a kiss, with a seal, you thought about lots of things-I imagined I wasn’t one (of them) that came up very often. acorns for squirrels, pecans for recipes. there are different ways to pronounce everything we’re afraid of.

I forgot I grow freckles on my face in the sun. it’s been a long time since I got tan. 

Jesse received a B.A. from Bard College (2002) in Creative Writing and Literature.  She is currently working on a collection of loosely autobiographical narrative poetry, which explores the meaning of self through malleable external forces like relationships, while exposing a more rigid framework of societal expectations.  Jesse has interned at Womanrock Magazine, worked as a fashion editor at YRB Magazine and is currently a drummer with a Rock band called Goodnight Gunfight and contributes lyrics to various other projects.