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Kristin George Bagdanov is a PhD candidate in literature at U.C. Davis. Her first full-length poetry collection, Fossils in the Making, is forthcoming from Black Ocean in 2019. She is the poetry editor of Ruminate Magazine. More at: kristingeorgebagdanov.com and @KristinGeorgeB.
I feed my body less and want more the surplus
I was promised storehouses of grain plains of locust
don’t signify a thing without hunger
telos that defers its own ending
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