Refuge
by KATIA ZALKIND
There is a corner of me that belongs to you,
small and easily overlooked.
Come and visit between syllables.
I have built you a house on a battered shore.
The pines are whistling in perpetual evening.
The ice in the creek is beginning to crack.
I am the person by the window,
of the iron bed and the well-swept floor.
Katia Zalkind is a Chicago-based poet and science writer. They hold a PhD in cognitive neuroscience and have never been able to choose between science and poetry. Katia’s work has appeared in RHINO, where they were also an associate editor, as well as the North American Review, Oyez, Milk Magazine, and others.