Jessica Rigney

Lesson 13.


Forget all
Of this.

Forget
What has been written.

Forget how
It used to be.

Do not
Turn your beautiful head.

Take your steps forward
only.

So says the mother.

So says the dirt and
The ocean and

The trees.


Lesson 8.


There will still be
Children

Here
At the end of time.

Still small humans
In their tiny shoes

Their fun-size clothes
Laughing giggling

Building new worlds from
Out of the remains of

This world. With
Their heads

Their delicate
Hands.



Jessica Rigney is a poet, artist, and filmmaker. Her poetic sound experiments may be heard at jessicarigney.bandcamp.com. Find her films under her name at YouTube. Years of collaborations with letterpress artists, musicians, and visual artists has yielded beautiful artifacts one may stumble upon among the interwebs. She is poetjess on Instagram.

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Spring 2021