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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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