Two Poems

Two Poems Jameson Fitzpatrick (bio) Chorine I'm writing you from the head of a pin, to mark it.I think I'm the only one dancing up here.That I may pass a moment longer as a naïf.Elsewhere the angels I am sing:What does the pin pierce, and why?A map; somewhere someone will want to remember she's been.A dress; a new hem.A leg; by accident, or for relief.Now, for me.(How can it be I wasn't, and wouldn't be?) [End Page 693] Small Actors Never to be someone's mother, no.But someone's friend —someone's mother's friend to whom two girls, late and soaked-through,come home: to the two of us at the table, drinking. How is itI'm no longer one of them, running in from the rain, but someone's friend's mother's friend [End Page 694] Jameson Fitzpatrick Jameson Fitzpatrick is the author of Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds, LLC 2020). A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in Creative Writing, she teaches at New York University. Copyright © 2023 The University of the South