In Which No One's Swallowed
The bridge collapses. A whale waits, eager as sin. A spectacle, the aluminum sky churns above us. None of us swim, so we close our eyes. The quilted sea folds into itself like a second skin, an oblivious savior. Chin up, it says, there’s nothing left to devour.
About Stefanie Kirby
Stefanie Kirby is the author of Fruitful (Driftwood Press, 2024), winner of the Adrift Chapbook Contest; Remainder, forthcoming from Bull City Press; and Opening, forthcoming from Glass Poetry Press. Her poetry has been included in Best of the Net and Poetry Daily, and appears in West Branch, Pleiades, The Massachusetts Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Offing, and elsewhere. She lives along Colorado’s Front Range with her family.