IN ALL THEIR PERFORMANCES

                    by Jan LaPerle 

When my daughter
wakes

she hollers
where are you

I am everywhere
I holler back

from some
back room other

life I’d chosen
once

some other street
then house

moved to the next
but how

would I be able to get
to you

she asks
then just like that

I am here. 



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photo by Amanda Churchill

Jan LaPerle lives in east Tennessee with her husband, Clay Matthews, and daughter, Winnie. She has published a book of poetry, It Would Be Quiet (Prime Mincer Press, 2013), an e-chap of flash fiction, Hush (Sundress Publications, 2012), a story in verse, A Pretty Place To Mourn (BlazeVOX, 2014), and several other stories and poems. In 2014 she won an individual artist grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission.