Kaitlyn Airy, a Korean American poet and fiction writer, was a finalist in the 2021 Narrative 30 Below Contest. Raised on a small island in the Salish Sea, she lives in Charlottesville and is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Virginia.

Consanguinity

by Kaitlyn Airy
This is what       it must have sounded like       in the hollow of her:
a timbre       not unlike a hushed beach fire       blue with salt
faint hiss of smoke scorched sand       eelgrass
among coals       uprooted from the deep fissure       where they forested
whole shoals of fish;       not to be mistaken
for tenderness       merely       a place of holding
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