Jarrett Moseley by Jarrett Moseley | Poetry Magazine

Jarrett Moseley (he/him) is a bisexual poet. He has won awards from the Academy of American Poets and The Baltimore Review and an honorable mention for the Miami Book Fair’s 2022 Emerging Writer Fellowship, and he was longlisted for the Poetry Society’s 2022 National Poetry...

Share Inspired by Molly Brodak’s poem “Molly Brodak” What if telling a story was an exercise in forgiveness? A boy slips a rotting peach into his pocket and looks off the edge of a cliff. Here in the airport, waiting for my flight with shaking knees, how much of his willingness to jump is my willingness to sit still— to bear the hornet’s nest of everyday life turning in my throat like a giant, wet eye? You can show me horses on fire. The ocean is every ship it never sank. Can I love sanding off the edge of a dresser as much as I love touching you? This lens of likeness, seeing your face in my

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