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Earth/Water

By Erika McKitrick

Illustration by Allen B. Thangkhiew

i.
can we feel the chamoisee/the family of roots/we cannot see/can we search the ground amply/know the face of fancy network/so proudly hidden/stretching damply/beneath our reality/a capacity unbelievable/insanity/a rhapsody of maggoty magic/our question of mortality/silenced/in the alchemy/of a perfect dirty cavity.

ii.
cerulean beast/creased summer cheeks/greased with sun oil/pieced together/with nature's release/the cold blue sheath/said to decrease/year by year/until we cease to exist/overcooked in our seats/eating sweet seaweeds/peat/from the expanse/that ruled our streets/now we must concede/to the beaches/dry as july concrete/bathed in heat.


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Posted On: July 31, 2025
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