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April 18, 2024
Jennifer Battisti is a lifelong Nevadan. She is a hospitality worker on the Las Vegas Strip and a Teaching Artist for SPRAT! Her writing has appeared in the Desert Companion, Witness, Brevity, Split Lip, Wildsam Field Guides and elsewhere. In 2023 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her nonfiction. She is the author of Echo Bay and Off Boulder Highway (Tolsun Books)
Tower of Jewels
Like the time our smiles were cut off in the picture
After we climbed onto the bar at Moose McGillycuddy’s
College boys flexing up at us
Our Bebe rhinestone tops sparking
After we climbed onto the bar at Moose McGillycuddy’s.
Camera’s flash cutting us, 18 karat eternal
Our Bebe rhinestone tops sparking
Shockers shooting varicose free whiskey
Camera’s flash, cutting us 18 karat eternal
So that this one never dies young
Shockers shooting varicose free whiskey
And this one never abandons her children
So that this one never dies young
This one keeps her cartilage and sleep
This one never abandons her children
And nobody has to tarnish or climb down
This one keeps her cartilage and sleep
Our teeth floating outside the frame entirely
And nobody has to tarnish or climb down
Where prisms break off from something larger
Our teeth McGillycuddy the camera
Moose boys flexing up at us
Where prisms break 18 karat children
The time our smiles cut whiskey rhinestones
Sparking after the picture, we tarnish.
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