Shruthi Shivkumar, 18, is a lover of poetry, teaching herself to step outside of her comfort zone. She is an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh where she is a double-major studying English Writing and Biology. Her work is forthcoming in Nine Muses Poetry and Impossible Archetype.
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superstitious
good things
come in
threes:
wise men,
bones in the human ear,
little pigs,
musketeers,
books in a trilogy,
feet in a yard,
strikes to be out,
your face and your heart-
sorry, did i say
face?
my apologies-
i meant the plural.
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ISACOUSTIC* 