"Every moment should have icing and when they remember you, every thought should be salty." "The tang. The red. The sweat. Who hasn't wanted fruit as it labors?" "This was a woman who counted calories like aspirin, taken one by one on an empty stomach." "The weight of the load causes wind drag on the body. Open the window."

Published Work by Jennifer Poteet Meet the Family   THE VOICE, Barbara, Meet the Family and In Absentia in MentressMoon Found   Pierian Springs The Innocence Mission   Pierian Springs The Lap Dance   Samsara Quarterly Hymns we Forgot the Words to   Artemis Journal Sexy, Texas   Artemis Journal Judges:12 and Bryant Park in August   AzaleaPlush The Infraction of Light    Sand to Glass The Choicest Flowers    Sand to Glass Revisited   Sand to Glass Hotel by a Railroad     Comrades Numbers Game     2River View A Bloody Evening on the Thames     2River View Hymns We Forgot the Words To     Wilmington Blues Where you've Been    Stirring MH     Stirring In the Garden     Conspire Medusa at Midday    The Melic Review Living Thin     The Melic Review I'm Not Bitter    Red River Review The Whole She Bang    The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks The Parts that were Ripped out of the Book     The Eclipse Sauce     Poet's Canvas Western Guns    Poet's Canvas Useless on Jeopardy!     Sendecki.com Long Island     Atomic Petals Miss Yung     Atomic Petals Doctor's Log     Atomic Petals Act II and Spring Sunday    PoetryMagazine.com Poodle     3rd Muse Poetry Journal Couplets for Quentin Crisp     Pierian Springs Desire and Inspiration at 2:40 a.m and Catering     The Absinthe Literary Review Roadmaps upon Embracing     The Adirondack Review Another Dead End     Poems Niederngasse Numbers Game, Desire and Inspiration at 2:40 a.m., and Sex, Lies, Advertising and Food     Poetry Superhighway Kitchen Table: Still Life and Gas, Food, Longing    Thunder Sandwich Gas, Food, Longing    Samsara Quarterly Life from now on should be Raisin Pie   Samsara Quarterly