c a t j o n e s

c a t j o n e s

from The Plainswoman's Mission Diary

Tuesday
	Day of reckoning. Books badly spoiled from damp, unable to settle birds, all of March awash. Little one appears w/ Thrush. Cure: sing 8th Psalm (per Miss W) & bleach bedding. The rabbit, a weak people, maketh its house in the rock.
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Wednesday
	My good Snow I ask that you fade badly, one brindle calf. Commence milk. Dearly the sky please pay one half value of sugar, dear fade, dear calf dreaming a needy place please please oblige me.
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Friday
	Day broke reddish, cattle low, Bro. M fixes upon the Sea. Vessels bring French butter and arms. Branch advises against snow. Still it comes, like wool. Nothing washed in Winter should mend, correct. Should drug. The Lord's ways kept.
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CAT JONES lives in New England, where she keeps a husband and a baby and a little garden. Her work has appeared in DIAGRAM, The Laurel Review, and the Tupelo Press Poetry Project. Her chapbook The Plainswoman's Mission Diary is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press.

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