Caroline Crew & Chris Emslie

Every Year Is Comeback Year

: no-one has ever had : this kind of clarity : remember
: the year we alternated : one iridescent : one dull
    : every stone : the same sick polish 
: as this goddamn stapled tongue : people assume things
: about me : I'd assume them about myself : if I didn't know me
: we are rarely afforded the good fortune : to step out of our skins
: this is why we cannot endure : two silences : this is why 
: one voice always has to break

Caroline Crew & Chris Emslie edit ILK journal. Her poems can be found in Salt Hill, PANK & The Tusculum Review, among others. 
His poems appear in Jellyfish, Ghost Proposal & Whiskey Island, among others. Together they best oceans.




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