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Bryana Dawkins

VSS

a poem titled "vss" appears, with many grayscale, semi-opaque echoes of the same text surrounding the main poem. the pome reads: Iridescent rain--a bruised shrill / vibrating in increments, like hunger / after a day of hunting boars, fishing in a hollow river. // fireflies, consolidating into film frames--- / fireflies, dissipating into ash. / i wish / i could blunt their motion, dim their wings, / but they sing as they sear me; // the burn is lingering
Bryana Dawkins is a writer based in NYC. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Conduit, Foglifter, Brink, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia University, and can be found at bryana-dawkins.carrd.co/#.

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