Soon Jones

Soon Jones is a Korean-American lesbian raised in the rural countryside of the American South. A 2017 Lambda Literary Fellow, they are pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Oklahoma State University. Their work has appeared in Lavender Review, Denver Quarterly, Lunch Ticket, Poetry South, Moon City Review, and others. Their debut chapbook, These Aren’t My Woods Anymore, is upcoming from Poetose Press. They can be found at soonjones.com.

Easy read of the poem in the images above:

The Pillar of Flesh

anchors the craters

where my breasts

once lived, ache

settling deep in

the ruins of after,

the carcinomas

scraped, muscle

cleaved to the

ribs, pulled and

stret ched, over

tired,

overcompensating

for what’s no

longer there. The

nerves regrow.

Sensation doesn’t.

Skin forgets

touch, remembers

pressure, scars

fissuring pain.

This broken

column of jagged

lines: the nexus of

where all frac

tured things mend.