Kaitlin Ruiz was raised on sunscreen and Audubon field guides in South Texas. She received a BA in English and Communications in 2017, and has spent the intervening years writing, teaching, and weathering global crises. Her work has appeared in places like Ekstasis, Fathom, and Barren. She lives in Pennsylvania with a cat named Tarragon.
Maybe your muttering heels calcified these seeping vowels. Lost habits or what’s left, fed on light and diction. Maybe yours, they grew. Knotwork, in the splits of sidewalks, here: harden our utterance. Leach loose antonyms along some jawline: sand and gravel. Water. Lime. Unattended handprints, things we never thought to stroke again are here, there […]
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