Kathryn Reese writes poetry & flash. She lives on Peramangk land in Adelaide, South Australia. She works in medical microbiology and enjoys solo road trips, hiking and chasing frogs to record their calls for science. Her poems can be found in The Engine Idling, Epistemic Literary, Crowstep and Red Room Poetry.

Kathryn Reese

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There were times we tried to heal the world

& there were times we sat up, night shift, watching her fever, our hips stiff from the plastic chair or fold-out bed, shoulders aching, the weight of her head in the crook of my elbow,
her drool soaking my sleeve.