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Jess Kadish

The world will be made while

​we’re  steeped  in  something  else, like brewing the coffee: grind, pour,
filter, drip,  drip,  drip,  day in  & out &  in and out  & one morning we’ll
look  up  from  the  too-hot cup,  singed  fingertips  singing,  & see snow
where we  could have sworn  the trees were just barely at their peak of
green.  Last summer  I swam  in a lake  down the road  from where  I’d
lived for years.  I never knew it existed, yet there it had been the whole
time:  full  &  swollen  wet,  the  surface  a thin film  of   smeared  insect
bodies.   As  we treaded   water  sixty  feet   deep,  sun-warmed  at    our
shoulders  &  spring-cold at our toes,  the woman  who owned   the lake
said to me— “This time of year,  the world shifts  toward death, though
we can’t see it yet.”  On the shore:  weeds tall as  sunflowers,  yesterday
just  tiny   things,   now   bending   beneath   the  weight   of   their  own
extravagance.  Shameless blooms  already turning timid.  Soft petals to
crisp curls.  The air buzzing  with the  longing howl of cicadas.  They’ve
spent so long waiting.        They’re     finally      here.       They don’t have
​much time.

Biography

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Jess Kadish (she/her) is a queer Jewish writer whose poetry has also appeared in Hooligan Magazine. She’s a member of Chicago’s 2nd Story collective, where she writes, curates, and directs personal narrative performance. You can hear some of her work on their podcast. She’s also an actor, and you can find out more about that at jessicakadish.com. The title of this poem was originally a text from a friend who meant to write “the world will be made whole” but thankfully was just one letter off. 
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