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Kayley J. Fouts has a BA in English from Plymouth State University<br />
and is currently applying to MFA programs. She has published<br />
several poems in The Centripetal and has self-published a chapbook<br />
titled, Leagues From Who I Am. Kayley lives in rural New Hampshire<br />
and is currently a Stylist and Manager at a local boutique. When she<br />
isn't working or writing, Kayley can be found hiking with her beagle<br />
or roller skating around town.<br />
Shadows & Sentiments<br />
Kayley J. Fouts<br />
I want to see you<br />
beside a bonfire<br />
that is flaming<br />
as high as the blush<br />
that lights up my face.<br />
I want to see you and<br />
feel your hand floating<br />
on the small of my back,<br />
not touching per se<br />
but not not touching.<br />
I want to set my veins aflame<br />
with sips of whiskey and set my lips<br />
loose from my brain's leash and say<br />
all the things I'm too clumsy<br />
to say, tripping over the<br />
ums, likes, uhs, and justs, as if<br />
they were untied shoe laces getting caught under my Chucks<br />
because those damn qualifiers choke my sentiments and keep me<br />
careful<br />
and safe like a sentence prison<br />
to which I sentenced myself.<br />
I want to be this better version<br />
of me, the one I see<br />
reflected in your irises, blinking back<br />
into my own, but I have another version<br />
6 Typehouse Literary Magazine
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