Jessie Zechnowitz Lim – Medium

Jessie Zechnowitz Lim

she/her

Rising

I used to be thick like butter but now I’m thinly spread my daily bread a grief of worldly pain sifted with the grains of my crunching…

Jul 5, 2023

Bread Dough Rising

Jul 5, 2023

Hold me in Sleep

Hold me in Sleep

Mar 11, 2023

Hold me in Sleep

Mar 11, 2023

Holding Space

Today I did nothing but covet. My mother raised me to take what she could not but that only bred an animal of want. I still cannot have…

Nov 2, 2022

Holding Space

Nov 2, 2022

Semper Augustus

I can believe that tulips were once worth much more than gold that the beauty of a broken bloom moved the sinews of men dressed exclusively…

Oct 23, 2022

Semper Augustus

Oct 23, 2022

Idyll

O my baby, my child, I would make more of you if I had more to give. But the world melts in rivulets like wax, an effigy of bees. The…

Oct 7, 2022

Idyll

Oct 7, 2022

Albrecht Durer —The Wing of a Blue Roller

A rainbow is rent from the body: a pinned wing for gaping and pointing painted in the planet’s palette and fuzzed with the recollection of…

Sep 12, 2022

Albrecht Durer —The Wing of a Blue Roller

Sep 12, 2022

Flamethrower

I read a meme that said If in Texas they’re going to put you in jail for having an abortion, you might as well kill your rapist. Do you…

Sep 5, 2022

Flamethrower

Sep 5, 2022

Johannes Vermeer — Girl With A Pearl Earring

How overstimulated and highly irritated that mollusk must have been Did some playboy slurp it? Eyebrow raised in come hither Aphrodite…

Jul 24, 2022

Johannes Vermeer — Girl With A Pearl Earring

Jul 24, 2022

Crazing Cracked

They tell us to fight aging as if we should punch (our own) faces, cocky for a schoolyard fight with a winner and a loser. As if the…

Jul 11, 2022

Crazing Cracked

Jul 11, 2022

Dragon

I hold the banister of grief as I fall down the stairs of living without your touch, your laughing tears hot on bacon cheeks wheezing…

May 26, 2022

Dragon

May 26, 2022

Jessie Zechnowitz Lim

Jessie Zechnowitz Lim

she/her

Florist by day, poet by night, and all-the-time mom living in California on unceded Ohlone land. She holds an MA in Art History. JessieWingate.com

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