Dylan Harbison is a writer from Burlington, Vermont. She now lives in Western North Carolina, where she studies creative writing at UNC Asheville, and runs Meter & Melody, a local poetry series. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prelude Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She loves tercets and sitting on porch swings late at night.

REFUSAL

June

By DYLAN HARBISON

and our bodies filled up like balloons and the concrete gave out beneath our feet