Jeanne Wilkinson

Jeanne Wilkinson lives in both Brooklyn, NY and Madison, WI. From being a “back-to-the-land” organic dairy farmer in Wisconsin, she ended up with an MFA in painting at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. As a writer and artist, she tries to create a vivid visual world for the reader. Her essays have been featured on WNYC’s “Leonard Lopate Show,” NPR's “Living on Earth” and “Cleaning Up Glitter Literary Journal.” Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Columbia Journal, Digging Through the Fat, Fresh.ink and Prometheus Dreaming. Creative nonfiction has been published by The Coil Magazine, Raven's Perch, New Millennium Writings, Lemon Theory and Metafore Magazine. Her short experimental films have been screened at BAM and at the Greenpoint and NYC Indie Film Festivals, and a video installation was shown at the 13th St. Repertory Theater.

Hashish and Mother Goose

Val has received a Christmas gift from the old lady of one of his clients: some hash brownies. Hashish is from the cannabis plant but purified and intensified, with a pungent, soil-like flavor that doesn’t do much for the brownies but chocolate and sugar make the hash itself somewhat palatable. I’ve smoked it before – since it’s not from a test tube, it’s on my okay list. Val gets it in a compressed form and sometimes sprinkles it in a joint. I’m not too excited about eating it, but I’ll do it. I’m on the magic bus; might as well go with the traffic. Within reason, of course. Within my code.
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