Lavandula vera
together
all wisps
listing out
what joyful dead
aroma a heat
a memory
in order to fit
a joint
is Bent
the ending where
the flowers happen
living they were
bluish
dead they are sage
still harboring
sun light
in a vein
Lavandula vera
6 figures cannot
compare
Lavandula vera
my lovely
under magnification
a structure appears
a puppet fabric
but sparkling
a soft but
not soft
glistening felt
spotted
“This is where the
scent pockets are”
the leaf that comes
with it a leathery ear
fine haired
and cracked
like a desert
crushed I notice
the yellow
small tubes
ridges of almonds
a grainy texture
Sea – music
somewhere
Julie Poole received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the New Writers’ Project at the University of Texas. In 2017, she was a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature. She will be a writer-in-residence at Yaddo in 2019. Currently living in Austin, she is a bookseller at Malvern Books.
Photographer Jennifer Matthews’ poetry has been published in Nepal by Pen Himalaya and locally by the Wilderness Retreat Writers Organization, Midway Journal, The Somerville Times, Ibbetson Street Press and Boston Girl Guide. Jennifer was nominated for a poetry award by the Cambridge Arts Council for her book of Poetry Fairy Tales and Misdemeanors. Her songs have been released nationally and internationally and her photography has been used as covers for a number of Ibbetson Street Press poetry books and has been exhibited at The Middle East Restaurant, 1369 Coffeehouses, Sound Bites Restaurant in Somerville and McLean Hospital.
