Four Haiku by Jessica Kinnison

Fear

done hung a hammock
inside of my heart and now
all I do is swing

Riot […]

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Mystery

my eyes begging bowls
a wall of red flowers bloom
your belly untouched

The Worst Thing […]

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Jessica Kinnison’s work has appeared in Columbia Review, Phoebe, Entropy, and The Southern Humanities Review, among other publications. A 2018 Kenyon Review Peter Taylor Fellow, her story ‘Star Party’ placed second in the 2019 Tennessee Williams Festival Short Short Fiction Contest. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In April 2020, she was listed as the first of eight New Orleans poets to watch in POETS & WRITERS. She serves as Director of Programs at Project Lazarus, a housing facility for people living with HIV/ AIDS. A Mississippi native, she is co-founder of the New Orleans Writers Workshop and host of the Dogfish Reading Series in New Orleans.