Jenny A. Burkholder

Jenny Burkholder is a writer and teacher who lives and works in Pennsylvania. The former Montgomery County Poet Laureate, she has published a poetry chapbook Repaired (Finishing Line Press, 2016), and her poems have appeared in The Calendula Review, 2River View, North American Review, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, The Maine Review, New American Writing, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and Glimmer Train, among others.

Poetry by Jenny A. Burkholder

Dorothy

In my new red high heels, a Rolex with a face of a hundred tiny diamonds, and my new black leather dress snuggled around my hips, I plan to smoke three cigarettes. First one I’ll light with a plastic Bic lighter, rough around the edges from opening too many beer tops, and inhale deeply

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