Despy Boutris is a writer and artist. She is the author of the fiction chapbook Burials (Bull City Press, 2022) and also has work in Ploughshares, Guernica, Agni, Copper Nickel, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. Currently, she is based in Los Angeles. Find her on Instragram @‌dbouts and on Substack at despyboutris.substack.com.

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Pastoral

By DESPY BOUTRIS

maybe it was the year
the water dried up