in birch
a color that flamed
flickered
by half
voices
that throbbed; doves
of silence
*
silence, the new
world
coming among
there was no
and there
—
Jennie Neighbors is a poet, playwright, and teacher who lives in Greenville, South Carolina. She has two books, Between the Twilight and the Sky (Parlor Press) which investigates liminality, and But They, Um (Spuyten Duyvil Press) which utilizes declassified documents from the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Painted Bride Quarterly, Packingtown Review, Pensive, and Canary.
