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Jesse Kohn
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Jesse Kohn
Jesse Kohn is a storyteller, dream journalist, and songwriter from Santa Fe. “After the Eye Surgery” is the opening chapter of a manuscript called the book of webs. He holds an MFA from Brown and is a PhD Student at the University of Utah, where he is a prose editor for Quarterly West. His writing has appeared in The Brooklyn RailSleepingfishBomb, and elsewhere. He also sings in the bands Mount Desert Island and Laughing Branches, and is the human brother of a dog named Roy.

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Vol. 82
Works & Days
Spring 2024
Bradford Morrow

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September 11, 2024
With floret centers so prolific
they turn—furred caterpillar folds?
zipped mouths? burn marks?—
the quite contrary daisy faces grow
dense in Mary’s garden.
September 4, 2024
He woke from a dream.

He was in the garage of an old house,
riding one of those toy horses
held to a metal frame by springs.
It was not very fast, not very curious
about the horizon.
August 21, 2024
I made sandwiches with the bresaola from the antipasto the afternoon before and some of the gouda I'd cut thinner from the cubes. I tried to feed the boy some of the gouda and a little bread, but he wouldn't have any. I suspected it was the traces of vinegar, they clashed with the white bread—it was all we had—or maybe it was just an odd new combination of flavors he didn't understand yet. But what was left over would likely get lost in the refrigerator where things were perpetually being pushed back behind more saved food, this striated order of aging and forgetting—food saved until eating what was left at the far back was unwise. Like memory, the economy of our minds repressing one moment for the next and leaving the past like a set of traps that might go off at any moment.
The internationally renowned writer will read from her work.
Monday, October 21, 2024
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Chapel of the Holy Innocents