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POETRY

New Year 2018

Stephanie Kutner

​The first fireworks were lit
to scare off spirits.
I hope tonight's will scare ours 
together into the sky's 
alchemy of colors.

What's left of your sweat
I wear like gunpowder,
hiding me from this night
when spark by spark
I must give us up
to ordinary explosions.

Stephanie Kutner holds an MFA in fiction from Emerson College and a BA from UNLV. She adjuncts at the College of Southern Nevada and as a result, also works at a call center, though the highlight of her career was working as Jacquelyn Mitchard's assistant. Her writing has appeared in the Huffington Post and The Culture-ist, among other places and her latest essay is forthcoming in Kweli Journal's spring issue.

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