*Originally published in Cream City Review.

Jeanne Morel’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, Cream City Review, Dunes Review, Phantom Drift, and other journals. Her chapbook, That Crossing Is Not Automatic, was published by Tarpaulin Sky Press. Jeanne has an MFA from Pacific University. She lives in Seattle and teaches at Seattle Central and at Bellevue College where she is a senior editor for Belletrist.

Photograph by Valdemaras D.