Ode to Rejection

We regret to inform you we read your poem
We thank you for your work but will decline
There is no place here for your words
We only publish artists who do not write like you
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We hope you fall off the open tailgate of a flatbed truck
driving down a dusty dirt road
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Jennifer currently lives on the sacred Powhatan land of Fairfax, VA. She is trained as a certified yoga therapist & trauma informed yoga teacher, military spouse, & mom. She has been published in The Muleskinner Journal, tiny frights, Amethyst Review, The Martello Journal, & Bluepepper as either poet or photographer.