Ovation
Kay Hammond
Two giant hands on either side of a head could crush it with a single clap shatter the skull and pop the
brain like a squelching jellyfish a rowdy round of proud applause becomes a massacre with blasts of
spraying organic paint misting the air that's the image that I see why my head aches and my jaw pops
why I flinch and cringe away when you smile and raise your hands and
Clap Clap Clap
Kay Hammond is a Junior Creative Writing and Publishing and Editing double major in the class of 2019. She has been writing poetry since the third grade. However, she can't actually prove it, as the majority of that poetry has been burned. Kay often chooses to write to about things that are dark, odd, and/or uncomfortable because she believes there is beauty in (quite literally) everything.
Issue 12
2018