“I belong to a long-running workshop group called On Assignment. Every month we invent a prompt to work with for our next meeting, and a recent assignment was simply the word amphibious. Then came my encounter with the coyotes, interrupting my contemplation of the unusual words running through my head. As I drafted the poem, I went with amphibianism as a metaphor for bridging and hybridity, especially with respect to the limits of the knowable.”
Jennifer Bullis is the author of Impossible Lessons (MoonPath Press) and of work appearing in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Terrain, and Water~Stone Review. She has received an Artsmith Residency Fellowship, Pushcart and Best New Poets nominations, and honorable mention in the Gulf Coast Prize. She lives in Bellingham, Washington.
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