I’ve recently come back to writing after years of motherhood, marriage, and caretaking–all my energy and creativity going in those directions. I’ve been thinking a lot about attention and focus, about the choices we make (and the choices that are made for us.) About the sense of time as a force, hurtling forward, and as a cycle, swinging back around.
Jessa Queyrouze is a poet and writer in Louisiana. Her poems have recently appeared in Smartish Pace, Poetry South, and the upcoming issue of Sugared Water. Her short fiction from the Spring 2024 issue of Waxwing was nominated for Best of the Net.