Will I Come Back as a Moose or an Aardvark or Something?

← v12n1, Spring 2013

Rachmaninoff once drank milk from a shoe

before the famous sonatas. I keep this

always in mind. Now, maybe

he is a centipede in Nepal, happy at last

with his hundred fingers, that short

darling life.

Kristin Marie Kostick

Kristin Marie Kostick is a poet and medical anthropologist. Her recent work has appeared in Forklift, Ohio ; H_NGM_N ; Open Letters ; Muzzle ; and Drunken Boat . She curates a monthly reading series in Hartford, Connecticut, and is a graduate student in the University of Houston’s creative writing program. Photo by Kristin Marie Kostick