ISSUE 1
Kendall Cooper
TIME & THYME
we can live here—
we can live in this space: basil and underbelly
of iron bones. we can choke
into lush and green daughters,
grow where there are only things we trust:
trimmed mouths, wilting bodies, wondering
if there is enough vacancy here—brimming
prescriptions of breath while we
exist as softly as possible.
i told you—your life clinging to a trellis
—that we are destined
to become only
spice and calamity. i hope
we are someone’s
fleeting taste of forgiveness
Kendall Cooper is a high school senior based in Houston, Texas. She is an alumna of the Kenyon Young Writers Workshop and is a 2022 Adroit Journal Mentee. Kendall has won numerous Scholastic Awards for her poetry and was a semi-finalist for Houston Youth Poet Laureate. Currently, she works as a literary apprentice for Breakbread Magazine.