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Jessica Lee McMillan
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Published in

Loose Words

·Oct 8

Yellow Brick Redux

Free verse —

Poetry

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Yellow Brick Redux
Yellow Brick Redux
Poetry

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Scrittura

·Sep 19

Thrift Store of my Mind

Free Verse —

Scrittura

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Thrift Store of my Mind
Thrift Store of my Mind
Scrittura

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Published in

The Riff

·Sep 12

The Powerful Story of Surf

An interview with John Tyner on Laphona’s debut album — When the heat dome struck the West Coast in 2021 and burned down an entire town, I channeled my conflicted feelings about summer into a playlist and then wrote about surf music every day for the month of July. I would have never guessed my daily devotions to surf music…

The Riff

10 min read

The Powerful Story of Surf
The Powerful Story of Surf
The Riff

10 min read


Published in

The Riff

·Sep 2

Halcyon Digest

Recap — Deerhunter’s Halcyon Digest still haunts me with its resonant embrace of hazy melodies. And it has become more meaningful to me after our insightful and entertaining Album of the Month discussion in late August. …

The Riff

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Halcyon Digest
Halcyon Digest
The Riff

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Published in

The Howling Owl

·Aug 30

Our Grade Seven Class Photo

Free verse — our class photo was the standard three lines backed by mowed velvet rows and cul-de-sacs. grids we returned to for afterschool TV, sibling rivalry and benign parental neglect. kids in my town wore GAP out of the barn always striving for a higher class, finding desire in hot-handed scrawl on ruled-paper…

The Howling Owl

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Our Grade Seven Class Photo
Our Grade Seven Class Photo
The Howling Owl

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Published in

The Howling Owl

·Aug 16

Dear Summer

Free verse — In summer, I face a crisis of faith in the tradeoff of interfacing with nature and love in exchange for its stings. My feet are rock-tough with salt rims and soles are mud drudged and grass-painted. My teeth steep in cold tea like phyllo seaweed through my hot fingers. My…

Poetry

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Dear Summer
Dear Summer
Poetry

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Published in

The Riff

·Aug 7

August Album of the Month

Disrupting the lens of nostalgia — The title of my August Album of the Month pick is a double-edged sword. In one respect, the band’s frontman defines the title choice as representative of “a collection of fond memories and even invented ones, like my friendship with Ricky Wilson or the fact that I live in an…

The Riff

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August Album of the Month
August Album of the Month
The Riff

8 min read


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Scrittura

·Aug 7

The Token Forest Just off Scott Road

A Pantoum —

Scrittura

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The Token Forest Just off Scott Road
The Token Forest Just off Scott Road
Scrittura

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Published in

Loose Words

·Aug 7

COUNTLESS

After Fujioka Fujimaki’s “Ponyo on the Cliff” — bet it among trees or tower, evening makes me an only child. lost in Sayama Hills, squares cast from other people’s kitchen windows, check light on the footpath and reveal wooden signs among ferns leading to Totoro’s Forest, leading to kin: Totoro, Ponyo, Sheeta, and robots who tend flowerpots on homesick…

Loose Words

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COUNTLESS
COUNTLESS
Loose Words

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Published in

The Howling Owl

·Nov 30, 2022

Ode to Fevers

Free verse —

Poetry

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Ode to Fevers
Ode to Fevers
Poetry

1 min read

Jessica Lee McMillan

Jessica Lee McMillan

2K Followers

Poetry, Essays, Music www.jessicaleemcmillan.com

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