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... & bugs. Cicadas can shed. They are shrill about it. If I open my ears, I can almost hear it: a lesson. How to molt, step one: Be unattached to your skin. Leave it when it needs to be left. Step two: Make noise in any way you know how. Even if it unsettles the whole...

... despite your best efforts to molt. Should another captive appear one morning, welcome her with old-style dances and holiday totems of mud and twigs. Don’t talk about the sea, even to avoid those awkward silences that can leave you marooned for days. When the islanders return...

... world it reaches to the throat, the oft-mentioned lump its vanguard of leaving the body, which is rejecting anything that could bring it such pain. In the river bank: mayfly molts, flecks of mica one could mistake for holding sky. Later, the Dutch started adding flies like those buzzing...

... and ignited the stove, the most obvious thing in the world. But communication was a blunt, primitive instrument. An old Band-Aid. A flimsy houseplant. Forget to water it a couple times and it dies a quiet, gruesome death. Watch it molting in the corner until you can bring yourself to hurl it into the dumpster...

... is a writer and recent graduate of the University of Minnesota. Her poem “Molting” received the 2024 Walter Nathan Prize for Undergraduate Creative Writers. She has poetry and fiction in places such as Lunch Ticket , Defunkt Magazine , Across the Margin , and Anti-Heroin Chic . She lives in Minneapolis...