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    So many sentences I’ve found
    So many I’ve heard, for forgetting,
    On the boardwalk —
    I did everything for the sun to not burn me
    I was a protected woman,
               half-seal, half-fish
    Little midday lounging
    Scratching at my side
    Jolly, winded,
    Total package, even
    Maybe Leviathan,
    Then getting chilled
    I sprawled
               (dried off)
    I made holes, deeply,
    Because being cold left me
    Bruising, or the opposite, healed
    Face that forgets
    Its own age
    And I made mutations, maybe
    Hoping for the sounds to sound
    Different, just for
    Your obliged understanding

     

    Katie Ebbitt is a poet and clinical social worker based between NYC and Mexico City. She is the author of Another Life (Counterpath Press, 2016), the chapbook Para Ana (Inpatient Press, 2019), and has contributed poetry to the anthology Rendering Unconscious (Trapart Books, 2019). Her work has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, The Poetry Project Newsletter, A) Glimpse) Of), Fanzine, Queen Mob’s Tea House, Prelude, and Deluge, among others. She curates the By The Way Reading Series.

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