Kayleb Rae Candrilli is author of What Runs Over with YesYes Books, which was a 2017 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in transgender poetry. Their second collection, All the Gay Saints, won the 2018 Saturnalia Book Contest and is forthcoming in Spring 2020. You can read more of Candrilli’s work here.

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POETRY

Sand & Silt

By KAYLEB RAE CANDRILLI

We all have a story like this, / innocent in its setting, nefarious / in how it stays / spurred into our bones as we grow.