the frames of our flesh
bending and fitting themselves
to fill and fulfill
each other’s need
Shayla Hawkins
Shayla Hawkins is from Detroit, Michigan. She is the author of Carambola and Exquisite by September. She is a winner of The Caribbean Writer Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for Short Fiction and The John Edgar Wideman Microstory Contest. Exquisite by September was a 2020 runner up for the Cave Canem/Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize and is now available from EastOver Press.