Jill Solnicki has published two collections of poetry, This Mortal Coil and The Fabric of Skin, as well as a memoir of teaching at-risk students titled The Real Me Is Gonna be a Shock: A Year in the Life of a Front-Line Teacher. Her third collection of poems, The Darkening House, is forthcoming in 2027.
Cremation in Mexico Our father, lying face-up in his linen jacket and good pants on the black rubber assembly-line conveyer belt that was jerking toward the furnace in this outdoor industrial yard on the outskirts of the city—where who knows what was disposed of—no plush chairs, background music orundertaker nodding
VOLUME 3: ISSUE 4
WINTER 2026
