Cate Lycurgus, Second Place winner in Narrative’s Fourteenth Annual Poetry Contest and a finalist in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Annual Contests, is the author of the debut collection Radiance, Despite (Four Way Books, 2028). She received a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from Indiana University. She lives in San Jose, California, where she teaches business writing.

Illicit

by Cate Lycurgus

kissing you is a comma
in the run-on of not kissing you
conjunction
in the sentence of not touching you

People on couch

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