Jane Zwart
Summer 2025 | Poetry
Messengers
Bad news we broke—
the alarm boxes’
dollhouse windows,
pendant mallets
chained to red sills—
and good news
we spread, chutney
and compote,
marmite and jam.
Or let me say it
like this: the medium
was the message,
a mouthful
of relish or glass.
Jane Zwart teaches at Calvin University and co-edits book review for Plume. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, HAD, and Ploughshares, and her first collection of poems is coming out with Orison Books in fall 2025.