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A senior at DePauw University in Indiana, Kendall Grady is a published poet, artist and avid traveler. Her love and talent for language has also enabled her to study at a prestigious program in Germany and intern with two New York publishers.

I would like to pass
out on your lawn.
I would like to see

you in your under-
wear. Just once.
I would be good.

I would handle
this making
flesh

careful as a child
sets a buckeye
out for squirrels.

I would be on the PTA
the Neighborhood Watch
and He would reveal

the secret shapes of clouds
on the way to school
so much easier

than I can flinch at the hollow
cumulous of my mouth
when I mouth your name.

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