Jessica Kim: sky trip in silhouette 

Jessica Kim: sky trip in silhouette 
Photo: Joanna C. Valente

Photo: Joanna C. Valente

sky trip in silhouette 

 

here is the allegory / that percolates / into flesh / 

dripping in mist / & dusk precipitates / a body 

drowns / in the lake / repeat / tell me how / we

were abandoned / in another / lifetime / i could 

 

traverse / around / prairie dreams / wildish &

the moon / on her palanquin / the stallions / 

galloping backwards / towards / the in-betweens / 

look / at the weeds coil / around my ankles / 

 

look / i am nothing / more / than starless nights / 

look at the story strapped / in the backseat / of the

Honda Odyssey / i am / not there yet / still stuck in / 

black and white / & i forget / what asphalt feels 

 

like / on backbone / telephone poles / still extend / 

into endings & the hurricane / still whirls / in

my eyes / tell me it is tranquil / there / in this 

summer / solstice / the memories turn stale / like

 

the box of / peppermints / on the leftmost / 

column of / your teeth factory / childhood 

dreams / & imagine how / the body exits 

the highway / unnoticed / the rain berates / 

 

the tarmac / the tire / explodes into the 

milky way / galaxy / starlight is too / bright 

for / my eyes / faded / & i remember the story / 

where i / was an angel / in the cracks / of 

 

moonlight /and there was snow in / april / & 

blossoms / fell into the margins / of star-crossed 

lovers / the story / where the body / is saved / 

on horseback / twice / & there were passenger 

 

pigeons / in the cusps / of dawn / & i was smiling / 

at the bleached crescent / thinking of / how 

everything had / an answer / without questioning / 

as if it was / all transfixed / into time / unbridled. 


Jessica Kim is a disabled poet from California. A two-time 2021 Pushcart nominee, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Wildness Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, Grain Magazine, Longleaf Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and more. She is the founding editor of The Lumiere Review. Find her at www.jessicakimwrites.weebly.com and @jessiicable on twitter and instagram.