Jennifer Saunders is an American living near Bern, Switzerland, with her Swiss husband and their two Swiss-American sons. Her work has appeared previously in Literary Bohemian as well as in Ibbetson Street Magazine, Literary Mama, Shot Glass Journal, and elsewhere. She currently has heather potted by her front door but is anxiously watching her Swiss neighbors for the first sign of change.
All work
I hang my curtains weeks later, outward /
sign of everything I misalign: /
the chairs, the curtains, the changing of the flowers.
You read to us of Tunis /
and spread a Stadtplan at our feet. …
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