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Katherine Plunkett is a junior Anthropology and Art & Design major, as well as an artist and writer from Rhode Island. She has previously had artwork published in the University of Chicago's Animus Classics Journal.
When I was a child, I pulled a flower out at the roots and left it on the desk of a boy I liked to think
about.
I scattered dirt all over my own desk
and my white shoes.
Maybe then I have always been a little
messy in love,
no,
destructive.
Maybe this story is a lie and I just wish I could go
back to the garden to pull
the flowers I was too afraid to,
and be less fearful of mistakes,
of messes.
Maybe I am thinking of a time when all I knew of boys was that some had pretty eyes.
Spring 2024
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