My Mother Is an Endless Story
Excerpt & Exclusive Art
The painting I made in diapers—
brash, thick, blackening strokes
to a child’s eye a picture of two
animals—one pinning the tail of
the other by its very long chin—
hung on my mother’s living room
wall my entire life. Legit. Mounted
inside a good frame, declared
Modern Art—like Franz Kline
or Motherwell comes to mind.
Jenny Apostol’s essays and poetry have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Washington Post, Brevity, Cordella Press, Blood Tree Literature, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Speculative Nonfiction, Metalsmith, and other publications. She earned an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop. Before that, she was a television producer at National Geographic. You can find Jenny’s work at jennyapostol.com.