Unsending a Voicemail

By Yeseo Kwak

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I won’t be here
next week.

so my leaden limbs
rekindle a dove, so
my wobbly teeth grind against
the grisly trauma–
hammer banging and banging

until I, the door, build a
hollow abyss in my gut–
a steady cycle of rumination,
interrupted; and more,
there is freedom

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Yeseo Kwak (@yes0_z) is a high school junior from Seoul, South Korea. Her work has appeared in Academy of Hearts and Minds, Bibelot, Parallax Press, and Literature Garden. Outside of writing, she is part of various student-led groups addressing various political and human rights issues. She attended the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference in the summer, joining fellow young writers around the world.