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Volume 3 Issue 1: Origins

Ferrule

noun

The metal band that is crimped to hold the eraser to the end of a pencil

 

What’s it like

being the metal bridge

between creation

and destruction?

 

To be able to rearrange

letters

from silent

to listen.

 

You, a silver corset

crimping the salmon

rubber.

 

Is it weary?

Having the power

to be both

wrong

and right?

 

A cousin

to two adverses.

 

Is it heavy?

When you write a wrong

number, on the patient’s bedside

chart? And then correct it?

Is it curious to save a life?

 

Is it blurry?

Being someone's

second chance?

Suhjung Kim

Suhjung Kim is a poet and writer from Seoul, South Korea. Her poems have appeared in Young Writers Journal, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Eunoia Review, and elsewhere. She writes for her school’s literary magazine, Kaleidoscope, and newspaper, The Tiger Times. She has attended writing workshops with Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and Kenyon Young Writers. When she’s not writing, she enjoys reading books of all genres, listening to music, and swimming.

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