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Adaptation I. (Cézanne)



   


Two sides
to every


skill, a skull
on one, on


the other a leafless
tree. What is life


supposed to feel
like, bare skin?


Draped cloth,
an ingenious alphabet


of folds, peaches
in a bowl are macho.


Who let him borrow
her kitchen? The smell


of his oils, her
domain.


Kirstin Allio won the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize from FC2 for her new story collection, Double-Check for Sleeping Children, coming out in 2024. Previous books are the novels Garner (Coffee House Press), Buddhism for Western Children (University of Iowa), and the story collection Clothed, Female Figure (Dzanc). Her awards and honors include fellowships from Brown University’s Howard Foundation and MacDowell. She lives in Providence, RI.