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Zone 3 Literary Journal Spring 2023, Volume 38, Issue 1
Zone 3 Press, the literary magazine of Austin Peay State University
Volume 38, Issue 1
Spring 2023

Glaze

  • By Simone Muench and Jackie K. White

They say she was doll glass, then ghost
glass, a rinsed object that bends
into its own deboning. Her mouth
stitched with rain, wrangling a wet
tone in a shipwrecked room. Her body

leashed to a chalk outline, a house
sloping seaward, swallowing mist.
Her hands oystered open too long
into longing, but shale smooth, sea
salt glazed. Against gossiping gazes

some go ocean-blank without forming
mirror or mouth, their bone-song
just a wet carping, but she uncoils,
swims away, a full arch, a rinsed
treasure rounded. Other doll-ghosts,

glazed iridescent in oyster shell,
mist the room with their lost longing.
They are mirrors rinsed of reflection.
She is an outline unstitched from doll.
Her glass mouth salted with song.

*A note from Zone 3: In the Spring 2022 issue, we published Simone Muench and Jackie K. White’s poem “Glaze.” The poem was printed with several formatting issues. We are republishing the poem in this issue, with our apologies to the authors and readers.

About Simone Muench and Jackie K. White

Simone Muench is the author of six full-length collections and is a recipient of an NEA poetry fellowship, the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry, and a Meier Foundation for the Arts Award. She serves as faculty advisor for Jet Fuel Review, as a senior poetry editor for Tupelo Quarterly, as poetry editor for Jackleg Press, and is the founder of the HB Sunday Reading Series.

Jackie K. White, former professor at Lewis University, has poems in Tupelo Quarterly and Superstition Review along with collaborative poems published in Pleiades, American Poetry Review, Ecotone, Gulf Coast, Hopkins Review, and others. She has published several chapbooks and served as an assistant editor for the collaborative anthology, They Said.

Zone 3 Literary Journal Spring 2023, Volume 38, Issue 1
Zone 3 Press, the literary magazine of Austin Peay State University
Volume 38, Issue 1
Spring 2023

Glaze

  • By Simone Muench and Jackie K. White

They say she was doll glass, then ghost
glass, a rinsed object that bends
into its own deboning. Her mouth
stitched with rain, wrangling a wet
tone in a shipwrecked room. Her body

leashed to a chalk outline, a house
sloping seaward, swallowing mist.
Her hands oystered open too long
into longing, but shale smooth, sea
salt glazed. Against gossiping gazes

some go ocean-blank without forming
mirror or mouth, their bone-song
just a wet carping, but she uncoils,
swims away, a full arch, a rinsed
treasure rounded. Other doll-ghosts,

glazed iridescent in oyster shell,
mist the room with their lost longing.
They are mirrors rinsed of reflection.
She is an outline unstitched from doll.
Her glass mouth salted with song.

*A note from Zone 3: In the Spring 2022 issue, we published Simone Muench and Jackie K. White’s poem “Glaze.” The poem was printed with several formatting issues. We are republishing the poem in this issue, with our apologies to the authors and readers.

Volume 38, Issue 1
Spring 2023

Glaze

  • By Simone Muench and Jackie K. White

They say she was doll glass, then ghost
glass, a rinsed object that bends
into its own deboning. Her mouth
stitched with rain, wrangling a wet
tone in a shipwrecked room. Her body

leashed to a chalk outline, a house
sloping seaward, swallowing mist.
Her hands oystered open too long
into longing, but shale smooth, sea
salt glazed. Against gossiping gazes

some go ocean-blank without forming
mirror or mouth, their bone-song
just a wet carping, but she uncoils,
swims away, a full arch, a rinsed
treasure rounded. Other doll-ghosts,

glazed iridescent in oyster shell,
mist the room with their lost longing.
They are mirrors rinsed of reflection.
She is an outline unstitched from doll.
Her glass mouth salted with song.

*A note from Zone 3: In the Spring 2022 issue, we published Simone Muench and Jackie K. White’s poem “Glaze.” The poem was printed with several formatting issues. We are republishing the poem in this issue, with our apologies to the authors and readers.

About Simone Muench and Jackie K. White

Simone Muench is the author of six full-length collections and is a recipient of an NEA poetry fellowship, the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry, and a Meier Foundation for the Arts Award. She serves as faculty advisor for Jet Fuel Review, as a senior poetry editor for Tupelo Quarterly, as poetry editor for Jackleg Press, and is the founder of the HB Sunday Reading Series.

Jackie K. White, former professor at Lewis University, has poems in Tupelo Quarterly and Superstition Review along with collaborative poems published in Pleiades, American Poetry Review, Ecotone, Gulf Coast, Hopkins Review, and others. She has published several chapbooks and served as an assistant editor for the collaborative anthology, They Said.

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