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Kim Patterson
Jul 6, 2021
She’s seventeen years old
and at midnight
she falls through the high school gym skylight
into the dark
like a hard swallow.
The next morning, they find her
on the parquet floor,
the same floor
where the cheerleaders dance
at home games
where we play dodge ball
like killers
where we do wind sprints
until our guts heave.
