an illustration of a person in profile with white fiery hair. they are looking upSamuel Samba

Valerie Hunter (she/her) teaches high school English, and has an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poems have appeared in publications including Edison Literary Review, Room, Other Voices, and Wizards in Space. You can find her on Instagram @somanystories_solittletime.

Postulation

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To merit a crisis, we stomach a foreign object,
tide our tongue with grace.
my ribs, lodged into a vessel.
the slow river of my vomit, kayaking…