telephone lines stitch the sky’s pale flesh one ragged wish thrashes in the wires a bitter crisp crease steals across the skin of the emerald sea sealing light within that cherry red fear blooms like blood in water glassy eyes shine bright and hollow
Jennifer Barnes graduated from the University of Maryland with an English degree and a concentration in Poetry/Creative Writing. She has had poems and articles published both in print and online, and is also co-author of the e-book Skin for the Bloodless. Most recently her work was published in A Little Poetry, Ascent, and sidereality.
By day she is a graphic designer with over five years of web and print design experience. In 2003 she co-founded Raw Dog Screaming Press which publishes cross-genre fringe fiction. She is also webmaster and editor at The Dream People, an online literary magazine. Her recent editorial projects include the chapbook Unknown Pleasures and the In the Back of the Closet anthology to be released by Ghost Edizioni in Italy and Ubooks in Germany.