Chapbook. Poetry.
5.5” x 8.5”
28 pp.
Printed on vintage bond paper.
Cover variants in assorted colors.
Hand-stamped with the official seal of Illicit Zines.

Work poems, walking poems, waking poems, painting poems, radio poems, travel poems, coastal poems, aerial poems, promontory poems, premonitory poems, enemy poems, angel poems

Something simple always breaks me

When the sky is blue
A leaf poses      to be painted

We’re all harlots for beauty      in that way
Wishing to drink the tears of the grass

Jennifer Valdies is a poet from California. With Hunter Larson and Allie McKean, she edits Little Mirror, a critical archive of poetics and biannual journal of poetry. Her work can be read in Annulet, b l u s h, FENCE, mercury firs, NOIR SAUNA, and elsewhere.