Taya Kitaysky was born in Magadan, Russia, and raised in America. She has studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, at St. John’s College, and at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, where she received the Harold McCracken Poetry Award. Kitaysky is pursuing an MFA in poetry at the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers.

The Witching Hour

by Taya Kitaysky

Our silhouettes wait to cross the street.

Meanwhile I pop into other worlds through the sewers,
to apple trees hanging upside down in Africa—
Then I’m back again,


clutching my ice cream cone, staring
at the girls with arrows painted up their thighs.
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