Kathryn Hargett-Hsu is author of Good Listener (2024), winner of the Frontier Poetry Breakthrough Chapbook Contest. Born and raised in Alabama, she teaches middle school in St. Louis. Find Kathryn on Instagram @mom.jorts.

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MICRO

Resplendent

By KATHRYN HARGETT-HSU

in verdant stud
of my contused eye