Poetry & Prose by Jane Muschenetz
Recently Published Work
Punctured Lines, Fall 2023
I want to tell you something small, in the great turning of this world, intimate as your grandmother’s soup. When you boil beets, carrots, and potatoes together, the potatoes will soften first, even if they are bigger than the other vegetables...
A Plate of Pandemic, Summer 2023
How many times she almost destroyed herself,
How she was nothing but molten, constantly...
Whale Road Review, Spring 2023, Nominated for ​
Best of the Net
Moms are 5 times more likely to die giving birth in the US
than moms in other, equally developed lands....
Most poems rhyme, unless - they absolutely refuse to...
A Point of Order and
Failure to Thrive
Meat for Tea, Volume 17, Issue 1
"Dark," Spring, 2023,
Nominated for Pushcart
In North America, a woman is...
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Dr. Harlow's famous "Monkey Love" experiments showed...
Rise Up Review, March, 2023
For your own good, they will say it's for your own good...
Writing in a Woman's Voice, February 18-19, 2023
In this version of history, Marge...
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When the doorbell rings, I think like a mother thinks, in tiny steps...
People, September 22, 2022
I don't need a closet full of Gucci,
there are only so many Russian funerals I'm required to attend...
Pink Panther Magazine,
Issue 37
September 8, 2022
Teaching my immigrant mother to use Google, or "Spell to Find What You Seek," Sundays, and The Uterus Compulsion
September, 2022
1. Opening Scene: Grandmother's House...
For those of us forced to flee,
the world is forever shrinking down to a single question...
I longed for poetry and doom scrolled
These bees in my garden are different bees...
Ink the Universe Anthology,
Wingless Dreamer, May 2022
​This morning, like any other, the Earth
in her living-proof vest of sun and sky...
Long before Reuters and BBC reporters signed off from it, Lviv Ukraine was my hometown, I knew it...
In the movies, villains have accents...
The word "physical" before "therapy," grants musculature...
Everyone says they should have bought Bitcoin 10 yrs. ago. Now, we're all planting trees in the second-best time...
Remember when we all, collectively, agreed...?
They are studying the effects of gendering on language
and cultural norms...
When I close my eyes, the dishwasher...
We don't have a cow to forget to milk, instead
we have Instacart...
As a child trapped at the cutting board, surrounded
by boiled, rooted things (beets, carrots, potatoes...)
MER VOX,
Vol 20, December 2021
"This is poetry?!" English words are interlopers in my mother's mouth. They wear a disguise to fit in...
Uppagus,
Issue #49, December 2021
The lemon tree extracts a price
For every fruit...
Quiet Lightning,
sPARKLE & bLINK
Issue 112, November 2021
I know the pretty, paved road
you're traveling...
Meat For Tea
Vol 15 Issue 3, Fall 2021
At the start of everything
(Before you asked and I said Yes)...
Meat For Tea,
Vol 15, Issue 3,Fall 2021
All my words are organic
The commas, free range...
Meat For Tea,
Vol 15, Issue 3, Fall 2021
Champagne and vinegar used to be
Polar opposites, but now...
Sheila- Na-Gig,
Fall 2021
they worked on the building behind our street, for five months straight, two crews...
SD Poetry Annual,
Spring 2021
Post addiction,
former high-school beauty...
Animal Poems
Love
Love is a warm house on a cold night
With windows full of golden light
All are welcome there to stay
And I can help you find the way
