Poetry by Jane Perry
a fellow chorus member tells me she tripled her recipe for ginger cake the middle did not cook even though she kept the cake in the oven longer than recommended and tested it several times with toothpicks until it came out clean I eat an outer piece which helps me sing with verve the next day she brings me a “gift” in a small baggie two oily-moist molasses-brown squares from the center I can see the uncooked goo through the plastic I eat one beginning with the cooked part and then the pasty part my headache goes away after a minute I save the second for just the right occasion
Jane Perry, guest on unceded Ohlone Territory, member of 1000 Grandmothers, author of the cross-genre White Snake Diary, published in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Oaklandside, The Gloucester Times, Paper Dragon, Alluvian, and The Ravens Perch. Jane’s sound poem “Echo Bridge” was a poetry finalist in The Missouri Review in 2021.
