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Leather and Gauze by Kit Kennedy

Mouth conjures heat
of your absence.

I wear gauze  color of hemlock
petition the small.  You clad leather

& beg ice.  You say only this moment
of pain.

I succor the fragile
withdraw my sparrow-bones

sip something room temperature
& red.



Kit Kennedy’s publications include: All Things Girl, Arsenic Lobster, Blood Orange Review, Bombay Gin, Cezanne’s Carrot, FRiGG, Mannequin Envy, Merge, Runes, Saranac Review, Snow Monkey, Van Gogh’s Ear, Velvet Avalanche and forthcoming from 5_Trope, Lavanderia, and Uphook Press. She hosts the Gallery Café reading series in San Francisco.



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