The soldier had been trained in the language of the people he disappeared. This language was a language of things and their ghosts.
Jessica Bozek is the author of The Bodyfeel Lexicon (Switchback Books) and several chapbooks. Recent poems appear in Action, Yes, Artifice, Fairy Tale Review, P-QUEUE, and Womb. Jessica runs Small Animal Project, a reading series and web-text experiment based in Cambridge, MA.
Poet’s Recommendations:
Sing, Mongrel by Claire Hero.
The Pink Institution by Selah Saterstrom.
Star in the Eye by James Shea.
Homepage photo via Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8488532@N08/3416523908/
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