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Poem by Kaitlyn Lafferty // Photograph by Milly Cope

Poem by Kaitlyn Lafferty // Photograph by Milly Cope

I am getting lost again

in filling nothingness

in a quiet wrapping

an unheard

understood

collapsing

I am ruins

an ancient site

grown over

i don’t remember

how to be

your haunting shapes

fill all spaces

leave no room for me

forgotten

in soft whispered

i love you

and quiet nights

a bare beast

and a delicate void

i was never

not a mirror

for you to look through

just another

mourning frame

forgotten before

ever shaped

Kaitlyn Lafferty

Kaitlyn Lafferty is a gallery host at the Denver Art Museum in Denver, CO. She writes and sells a really personal perzine called perpetual ambivalence about her misadventures and wonderment with all things life. Right now, she attends community college of Denver, working towards becoming a geologist. Outside of work and school, she is an artivist and organizer with a focus on energy justice and reclaiming emotions. She is passionate about nature, art and all the small beauties of living. If she could be any color at this point in her life, it would be a delicate shade of pastel salmon. Keep up with Kaitlyn on Facebook & Etsy.

Milly Cope

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