The conversation went exactly as one might have expected though not as one would have hoped. The Dr. came in, listened carefully. Asked questions I had not been asked before. Nodded his head. Understood from a place perhaps provoked by age – he was just a few years older and had a sister, he said. I’m going to talk to you like you were my sister, he said, time and time again. He told me to look at what he was seeing. He held my hand.
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Poet, essayist, and editor, Abriana Jetté’s work can be found in Best New Poets, Teachers & Writers Magazine, PLUME, Tampa Review, Poetry New Zealand, and has been supported by the Sewanee Writers Conference, where she was a Tennessee Williams Scholar, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, the Southampton Writers Conference, and other places. She is a two time recipient of finalist fellowships from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts for Poetry (2023) and nonfiction (2024).
