Kat Myers

Kat Myers is an emerging poet and former party girl. She is studying Creative Writing at North Carolina State University in her hometown, Raleigh. A finalist for the 2018 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, she has also been published in Kingdoms in the Wild, Sonder Midwest, and The Rising Phoenix Review.

“Full Moon and Plum Tree”, “Memory from the Week I Unremembered” and “Big Enough”

My father buys plums and asks me not to ruin them this time.
When he leaves the room, I press my thumbs
into them until the skin gives out, until the whole kitchen is muscle and juice,
dark-purple in desperation.
I can’t remember the word for touch in Spanish, can barely remember it
in my own tongue.

Kat Myers

Kat Myers is an emerging poet and former party girl. She is studying Creative Writing at North Carolina State University in her hometown, Raleigh. A finalist for the 2018 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, she has also been published in Kingdoms in the Wild, Sonder Midwest, and The Rising Phoenix Review.

“Full Moon and Plum Tree”, “Memory from the Week I Unremembered” and “Big Enough”

My father buys plums and asks me not to ruin them this time.
When he leaves the room, I press my thumbs
into them until the skin gives out, until the whole kitchen is muscle and juice,
dark-purple in desperation.
I can’t remember the word for touch in Spanish, can barely remember it
in my own tongue.

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