Janet Jerve
The air
light
easy
to breathe
to lift up the skirt
of daily existence
walk barefoot
through the muddy life below
head tipped back
eyes shut in bliss
the entire species
laughing.
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Janet Jerve has taught poetry and worked as a writer for a nonprofit. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies including Poetry East, Water~Stone Review, Great River Review, Hurricane Alice, Lake Effect and more. She lives in Minneapolis and is working on her second book of poems.