Poetry by Yessica Klein

                       Andrea Addante CC



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I Am Part Of The Universe & The Universe Is Part Of Me


though we watched a shooting

star together, that was not

our favourite moment. yours was

a hand job whilst stranded in a cave

in Port Bou, the high tide and the storm

keeping us attached. mine was something

so ephemerally precious that I 

can no longer recall, the hours in which

we did not kiss, the seconds before you

arrived home, a song of tingling keys

by the building door. former lovers:

we are not our own feelings

let alone another being’s mess.

outside our old kitchen window,

the night buzzes with no promises

but silence. 

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Yessica Klein is a half-Brazilian, half-German writer and artist living in Berlin, Germany. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Kingston University (London, UK) and was shortlisted for the 2017 Jane Martin Poetry Prize (Cambridge University, UK).

Her poems and artwork have been featured online and in print, most recently at 3:AM, SALT., elsewhere journal, porridge magazine, Beacon Quarterly, hotdog magazine, the Museum Of Futures, and many more.

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