Kate Jayroe

Kate Jayroe is a writer in and from Little Mountain, SC. Kate’s chapbook, Parts, was published with Dorsa Brevia Press in 2019. Work by Kate appears in The Fanzine, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Joyland, VIDA’s Report from the Field, Juked, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and more. katejayroe.com

SPLENDOR IN THE CORN by Kate Jayroe

I am such a hot, sad wraith.   Open-mouthed, I sob in the park on quarantine walks. I listen to ‘Til Tuesday. I ramble as far as possible from every other person there. Fuck the Frisbee golfers. I’m processing the three most harrowing break ups of my life. I’d been with none of the people involved, save myself.   One is the man I’d been sleeping with. A hot, aging punk with a scarred nipple from self-piercing as a teen in his parents’ kitchen. I liked to squeeze the scar tissue in bed between two digits, other hand busy down…

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