Erin Jamieson

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Split Peas

promise me
these blistered
streets won’t
last forever 

            sunflower seeds
                        scattered on charred
                        playing cards

you say they come to save us, these trucks with bulgar wheat & split peas & cooking oil but they come and do not return, they come & do not bring enough, they come and leave us in our home that is both our home & nothing like it, they come & leave us

stranded, a market
rotting melons
            juice dribbles
            amidst rubble

Erin Jamieson’s (She/Her) writing has been published in over 100 literary magazines and nominated twice for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of Net. She is the author of four poetry chapbooks, including Fairytales (Bottle Cap Press) and a historical novel, Sky of Ashes, Land of Dreams (Type Eighteen Books).