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

Issue 20 by Kat Myers

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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