Meghan Kemp-Gee

Quick

I will dig in. I will keep your feet close
to the ground. Since your time of sprouting, I
have known you, have known your name, and the most
world-stopping name I know is you. Fleetly
and sickly, your body grew around where
the world stood the weakest, where it missed
the mark and misremembered how to bear
its own vast, familiar weight. You grew best
and strangest where it misremembered
how to hold you under. I hear it grind
like sand between your teeth, grind into a
thin-grained ending, ground up like good last words.
I will pull you together, knit you up
and I will keep your feet close to the ground.

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Meghan Kemp-Gee lives somewhere between Vancouver, BC and Fredericton, NB. She writes poetry, comics and scripts of all kinds. She co-created the webcomics Contested Strip and Space Heroines of El-Andoo. Her comics have been published in numerous anthologies. Her poetry has recently appeared in PRISM, Copper Nickel, Rising Phoenix Review, Stone of Madness, Altadena Poetry Review, Anomaly, Train and Rejection Letters. She studied at Amherst College and Chapman University and is currently a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick. She also teaches composition and plays ultimate frisbee. You can find her on Twitter @MadMollGreen.