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Perennial

By Kate Castellana

 

we ride twelve feet tall on heat waves like they’re coastal swells:

growing up in california

has born an unquenchable thirst for the sky in my throat

and on my powdery tongue

i wait all year for rain

like my cousins across the country wait for christmas;

stick out my tongue to catch acid precipitation like they catch sugary snowfall.

i learned how to love with a dry mouth and

that’s the miracle:

something’s still growing.

 

 

Kate is currently attending her second year at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. She has contributed to and works as the layout designer for her university’s literary magazine. When not at school in the Pacific Northwest, she goes home to sunny southern California, where she reunites with the three great loves of her life, including iced matcha lattes, the smell of lemongrass, and chocolate-chip waffles.

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