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dirt sea

Allison Hummel

the land has known

ashes

has known blood, too

and the muddy barren

fields stick to the

boy’s throat

i see

inexplicably

how he stands holding

a perfect crimson

apple

surrounded by his dirt sea

Allison Hummel is an undergraduate Writing and Literature major at CCA. She is twenty-two years old. Her current project involves one-word statements scrawled into the condensation of her shower door.