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ISSUE 5: AEVUM
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CLARISSE KIM
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Pool Day
Clarisse Kim | Poetry
The memory just three years behind her,
lungless. Bug-eyed goggles, neck craning
out of the shallows. Buoyancy in seconds—
Five, then ten. Ten to twenty fives.
Knee dives in the deep end.
Arms streamlined for the corners
sunlight never bent into.
Face carving fireworks
from water. Lost time floods
the sinuses. The same
stinging opera, breathy.
Chlorine washes off like the years,
A reverse drowning. Real easy.
Beneath the eyelids, in flashes:
A pink cap, flowered.
The starfish float.
A hand reaching
on the tiles,
as if to turn a doorknob.
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Clarisse Kim (she/her) is a student and aspiring writer. Her writing has been published in Crashtest Magazine, the Weight Journal, and Under the Madness Magazine, among others. When she isn't writing, Clarisse can be found eating fifteen MadeGood berry granola bars, or playing (and losing) crane games.
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