Kudzu Ocean

(Abridged version published by TWIG magazine: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1agXkJLRZsbzY3D2Z1KxcqRNDlQweFoxl/view) Emergent layer She drops her ring, a thin jade band with a vine of glistening diamonds twisting all around it, beneath her. We watch it tumble down, surely it’ll be caught in one of our nets, maybe land on one of our wooden bridges, maybe we’ll find it in someone’s hammock of woven […]

But I need your body

Also published on the Sheffield Review (https://thesheffieldreview.wordpress.com/camilla-sechi/) I still live in the very first body I was ever gifted.  I only had it repaired once, aged thirteen, when I fell off a tree in our garden and landed onto my arm. It took a month to heal, a month I spent living in my emergency body. It might as well […]