“Stranger Jelly” by Noah Stetzer (poetry ’14)

An excerpt from “Stranger Jelly” by Noah Stetzer (poetry ’14), published by The Rupture.

Stranger Jelly

Go for a jar of jam at the market and realize days later when you pull
it from your fridge that in fact it’s something you never in a million years
would have ever thought to even try much less buy and there you are

in your kitchen ready for toast with butter and jelly holding a jar of never
thought of, never knew it, never thought to know it even existed in all
the world, jam…

[… continue reading at The Rupture.]