Jenna Cardinale
Jenna Cardinale writes poems. Some of them appear in Verse Daily, Pith, The Fem, and H_NGM_N. Her latest chapbook, A California, will be published by Dancing Girl Press in 2017. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
At Least this Music
I’ve filled out
my entire
form.
/
What about decor. And how
does light work. The shadows of
the lamps. Static skeet.
/
In the shadows some of the people are small.
/
I’m not great at holding
up this heavy conversation.
This body. A gun.
/
Listen for the violence
of bow to curve.
Shark Eye, February
The way we walk on
ice.
I am an American, but
I still only find empty
shells on the beach
between the edge of ocean
and an auto-lit development.
The way we remember snow.
What it covers.
There are fewer shootings after
summer.
Everyone is well-read and understands danger.
Then a tiny predator
(that’s what we call it)
falls out. Dried out. Dead.