Winter Dress

By Jessica Kristie

Winter Dress is a stunningly poignant collection of prose and poetry that reveals brokenness and embraces threads of love, sex, family and the desire to find freedom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Winter Goose Publishing
• Release date: Mar 31, 2015
• ISBN: 1941058213

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Table of Contents

Watered Road

207

Your Memory

Death’s Reminder

Moving Forward

Mosquitoes and Moonlight

A Loss for Actions

The Dream in My Sails

Wishes to the Wind

What We Know

Kite Strings

The Worst Kiss

Choose Me

Face to Face

A Break in My Step

Bloodletting

What This Seems

Buried

Lost in Truth

I Was Wrong

Swollen

Words Lost

Feeding Ground

In Your Hands

Moonlit Nights

We Roar

Measurements

Quiet Inside the Silence

Speechless

Winter Dress

Permanent

Waiting Bridges

Into the Ether

Re-Creation

Drowning

Darkness Masquerade

Prose Poetry

Again

Empty

Live. Now.

Standing Tall in Pieces

Eyes Wide Open

To the West of My Heart

Conceptually

Mermaid’s Tail

Sticks and Stones

Flesh from Fantasy

Remembering Electricity

Further Past Forsaken

Pressing Recovery

Burn it Down

My Constellation

Blisters and Boundaries

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Books by Jessica Kristie

Poetry:

Dreaming in Darkness

Threads of Life

Fiction:

Barbed-Wire Butterflies

Winter Dress

A Collection of

Poetry & Prose

By

Jessica Kristie

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Winter Dress

COPYRIGHT © 2015 by Jessica Kristie

First Edition, March 2015

Cover Art by Winter Goose Publishing

Photograph by Felicia Simion

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Typesetting by Odyssey Books

ISBN: 978-1-941058-21-3

Published in the United States of America

For my unrest

May you keep me writing, growing,

and continuously moving forward

. . . but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

—Alice, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,

by Lewis Carroll

Watered Road

I’m trapped in these blues.

From cruel winds,

and feet that leave destruction through castles.

Our direction changed too quickly.

Drawing lines in the sand,

disparaging our embrace.

Curtains trap belongings that beg for freedom.

Your fall feels certain,

even with my arm firmly at your waist.

While my descent has passed through Tuesday’s clock,

and left me martyred at your feet.

There may be—

no redemption in my words.

No repairing what