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Karen Harryman is the author of the poetry collection Auto Mechanic’s Daughter. The recipient of the 2019 Rumi Poetry Prize and the 2018 James Hearst Poetry Prize, she earned an MFA from Antioch College in Los Angeles. She was born in Cave City, Kentucky, and now lives in Los Angeles.

Floating

An iPoem

by Karen Harryman

We are in the good Target, picking out bathing suits
for a last-minute invitation to the beach. My daughter
is nine. Mom, she whispers, can I get the, you know
(holding up two fingers), the two-piece?

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