Butterscotch dum dum3/14/2024 ![]() She holds a degree in English and Creative Writing from Wellesley College. Her work has previously appeared in publications such as Metonym, Rookie, and Linden Avenue. and currently lives in Valencia, Spain, where she works as an English teacher. ![]() On discovering the body of a neighborhood catĬlaire Verbeck grew up in the rural midwestern U.S. Dum Dum Pops are classic hard candy lollipops in 16 delicious flavors: Banana split, blue raspberry, bubblegum, butterscotch, cherry, coconut, cotton candy. It’s harder, always harder, to be the one who’s left. The old cliché conveys a sense of neglect: ![]() I can’t bear the sweet perfume of its blooms.Ĭhoked by cigarette smoke and a clingy terraĬareless feet on the dusty hardwood floor. The Brugmansia’s decided I’m too reckless I rifle through these crumpled gravel streets Whose names have long since drifted downstream. Tonight, in frayed mulberry fingers, I write youīiscuits melting in a small pond of gravyĪt the Mercantile, Saturday mornings were a giftįrom the guardians of overstuffed armchairsĬinda could always conjure a butterscotch Dum Dum ![]() This is the acrylic backdrop where I rehearsed Here they kissed, brimming with summer staticĬurrent dense like a creamy French press. While older siblings, unsupervised at last,Įscaped to the river bend at Schimmel City. ![]()
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