Ella Williamson

Ella Williamson is a first-year fiction student living in Manhattan. She writes long-form contemporary fiction, genre fiction, and poetry.

“The Avatar” and “A Viper and a Chickadee”

You found malleable a woman of uncandled clay;
I suppose it was she who gave you the carver’s adze,
Saying, “I just want to be close to you” –
You smiled through the splinters in your gloss
And took lacquered fingers to the handle.

Issue 37, May 2020

Ella Williamson

Ella Williamson is a first-year fiction student living in Manhattan. She writes long-form contemporary fiction, genre fiction, and poetry.

“The Avatar” and “A Viper and a Chickadee”

You found malleable a woman of uncandled clay;
I suppose it was she who gave you the carver’s adze,
Saying, “I just want to be close to you” –
You smiled through the splinters in your gloss
And took lacquered fingers to the handle.

Issue 37, May 2020

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