Jennifer Dignazio
My June in the Endless Mountains

I will leave my fingerprint here
like one of a sailor’s
who once touched a dusty china bowl
on a shipwreck leagues below the surface,
where the sea rushes deep and salty—
washing the porcelain and the rust
of all signature,
swallowing cups and jewels and skeletons
into its nameless, blue prairie.

I will leave my skin and my bones,
as a turtle’s shell removed and crushed—
and like the ashes of a crematorium,
things like sheep will pass by
and nothing will remember;
as if to sea and hill
I had been a ghost,
a thin, silver scarf
gone under disintegration,
and my voice a vanishing decimal.

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Jennifer Greer Dignazio is a poet and singer/songwriter originally from NY. She started writing poetry at a young age, with a complete book of poems ready by the age of 21. At 25 music took hold of her, and she has been writing and performing her songs ever since. Now, several decades on and having put down roots in the Boston area, she looks forward to an exclusive return to writing ​ in the future. (For it is much simpler to bring around a pen and paper than a keyboard and cables). Her recent poems deal with the experiences she found, spiritual and natural, during a month-long retreat in complete solitude in the Endless Hills of northeastern Pennsylvania. ​

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