Jennifer H. Fortin holds an MFA in poetry from the New School, New York. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Court Green, Copper Nickel, BlazeVOX, GlitterPony, and others. She is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Bulgaria, 2004–2006).

Against Loss

-Formal ties, avoid casual
-How to evade befuddlement
-Occipital crown as northern cardinal
-Your hoodie is at my place
-Unconcerned, knees cutting bone-close
but unintentionally
-Not a death, no no
no no no & so on
-Scrimmages/toeing field
-Thought should not hold you
-Board all windows
-Valuables—see other itemization
-There goes attention
-As in, destroyed