Clara B. Jones
Tabulating The Results
Clara B. Jones is a retired scientist, currently practicing poetry in Asheville, NC, USA. As a woman of color, she writes about the “performance” of alterity and alienation and conducts research on experimental poetry. Clara is author of two chapbooks, and her poems, reviews, essays, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous venues.
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Tabulating The Results
In one sentence or a few tell me what happened? | You on another continent drinking coffee from her blue cup | reminding you of our discreet collection of fragile Chinese whiteware | or not recalling us at all easily forgotten or repressed | like a datum preserved in a table with other points | filed with other records of failed experiments cell by cell. | Are clouds hung low or did I trek to Monteverde | where quetzals are incarcerated at high altitude in cold mist | somber silver a mother would choose for burying a child | an unwanted event happening nonetheless as a cold hard fact? | I have reached a kensho moment: different facts different truths. |
Clara B. Jones is a retired scientist, currently practicing poetry in Asheville, NC, USA. As a woman of color, she writes about the “performance” of alterity and alienation and conducts research on experimental poetry. Clara is author of two chapbooks, and her poems, reviews, essays, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous venues.
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