These poems are about grief and displacement—how memory acts as both preservation and loss, as a simultaneous omnipresence and lack. My manuscript is focused on relationship and lineage but also on place, and I created a series of postcard poems to guide me, to serve as touchpoints in that endeavor. Ultimately, I wanted to lean into sonics and the line in these two poems, for those to create their resonant, haunting tones.

Lauren Elaine Jeter holds an MFA from North Carolina State University. Her poems have appeared in Rust & Moth, The Fourth River, Crab Creek Review and elsewhere. She lives in the coastlands of North Carolina with her husband and chocolate lab.