Unsettled Gifts
Kate Schnetzer
Matcha nails comb through the mossy me.
Fish shimmering
against algae-filled seas.
Mouth filled with tambourine chuckles.
Your voice only speaks
when music is playing.
Can we please stay? suspended.
in the sneeze. Mid-air on a
trampoline.
Floating
ends of my hair
still sticky with the smell
of burnt blueberry cookies and kimchi.
Eyes followed
trails of blue
and broken
dreams. But they weren’t dreams.
Just half-bloomed lungwort,
that borrowed breath to feel
the muscles in my neck bruise against
the right side of your
cheek.
When they put the breath back, your skull
plunged deeper
into the hole you made, between my collarbone
and shoulder blade.
Kate Schnetzer is a recent graduate of Indiana University, receiving a B.A. in Theatre & Drama. During her time at IU she studied, wrote, and workshopped poetry. She loves stories by emerging artists and has directed a number of contemporary queer plays. She is originally from Orlando, FL.