Abbie Kiefer

Abbie Kiefer is the author of Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024). Her work is forthcoming or appears in the Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Ploughshares, RHINO, the Southern Review, West Branch, and other places. She lives in New Hampshire.

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Paring Knife with Ripe Fruit

Abbie Kiefer  | 
Issue 73.2 Spring 2024

I spent the last of that morning’s fourteen miles— right hip snarled, stride and pace a capitulation— considering my once-idle question: How long can I do this? But also thinking of the nectarine, waiting, at its heavy- fleshed brink. I ate it, sliced at meridians, at my kitchen counter standing—still in […]