This is the park that was never a forest until you found yourself lost there. This is how you thought the word park meant playground. This is the time you heard screaming in the woods but kept driving.
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Kristin Maffei is a poet and editor living in New York City. She was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Oxford, and is currently a Goldwater Fellow in Poetry in the MFA program at New York University. She is an Associate Editor at Oxford University Press and co-founder of the collaborative literary ’zine Call & Response. Kristin is co-curator of the NYU Emerging Writers Series at KGB Bar. Her work has appeared in Underwater New York, qarrtsiluni, The Little Jackie Paper, In Flux, and on a few buses in Oxfordshire.
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