Ink 65

Ink 65 Kathryn Smith Kathryn Smith is a queer poet and mixed-media artist. Her most recent poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Cephalopod (Milkweed Editions, 2021), won the Jake Adam York Prize and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her poems and...

Griefworms

Griefworms           Come winter, the city introduces the griefworms. They are designed to vermicompost our grief efficiently. They have been tested in an unnamed lab. “The last few years have been difficult,” the city government website admits, a vague reference to...

Roleplay

Roleplay   Where I am the sugar cube and you are the ants— all of them Where I am the feathers and you are the many hands plucking Where I am the skipped stone, you are the lake-silt cupping my landing Where I am the yolk and you are the face reflected in my sheen,...