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Upside Down by Kathryn Kulpa

September 18, 2022

Nothing above us but sky. Nothing ahead but road.

September 18, 2022

how close they lived, how much they touched, how they were buried next to one another…

September 18, 2022

He said I’d die ten times and still rise a woman made of bees swarming chrysanthemums, dragging dust between worlds.

September 18, 2022

I wasn’t strong enough to break through the first layer of earth, and I had to step on the shovel to make a crack, push my whole body into it.

September 18, 2022

The hoodoos still bear witness, still wait. Tiny bore holes line the craggy ridges of soft clay like acne scars.

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