Callie Crouch

American Spirit

It was half burnt
in a Ziplock taped
to your fridge, labeled
“next drunk cigarette”
and I saw
myself there, somewhere
between what you
started and
couldn’t finish,
what you put between
your lips but
couldn’t stomach
sober.

Callie Crouch has an MA in Writing Studies from Saint Joseph's University and is attending law school at CU Boulder. Her work is inspired by growing up in the South and appears in numerous journals and anthologies, including Barbar, Coffin Bell, Olit, Volney Road Review, Quarter Press, River and South Review, and Barely South Review. Callie is from Florida but lives and writes in Colorado with her cat, Idgie. You can find her at calliecrouch.com