sparklers on the back deck 
year of the dog I christen cat 


wake late to work dreams 
sentences that left for the beach 
formatting nightmares 


Ethiopian coffee in bed 
single origin sex 
iced coffee to wake again 

LeeAnn Pickrell

is a poet, freelance editor, and managing editor of Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. Her work has appeared in a variety of online and print journals, most recently One Art, Loud Coffee Press, Atlanta Review, and MacQueen’s Quinterly; and in the anthologies Coffee Poems (2019) and A Trembling of Finches (2017). She has a book forthcoming from Unsolicited Press. She lives in Richmond, California, with her partner and two cats.

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ Hand and Wheel, after Georgia O’Keeffe—Hand and Wheel (1933) by Alfred Stieglitz, in KYSO Flash (Issue 8, August 2017)

⚡ Ode to Coffee, after a painting by Richard Diebenkorn, in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 4, July 2020)