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Charles Kell

CHARLES KELL is the author of Cage of Lit Glass, chosen by Kimiko Hahn for the 2018 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. He teaches in Rhode Island.

Perfume
by Charles Kell

March 8, 2021 Contributed By: Charles Kell

Perfume Bottle

Last summer your skin tasted of orange peel, of ephemeral    lies buried deep in your lungs. Never more than two words: that hurts,   or like that, right there. Every- thing inside me became unlocked,   the Stanley knife you stole that looked as though it could barely break flesh,   the love letters […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: March 8, 2021

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