Wash Cycle
Leave a commentJune 30, 2023 by The Citron Review
by Kayla Rutledge
Six days a week the sun is
making church windows
on the ground. When you left
the day drew its blue circle, like always, like
I knew it would. In the sink,
the jewelry of silverware demanded still
to be washed. Once you said
I slipped a stitch in your heart
just to feel the catch of the knot. So.
If I cut the thread, my love,
what will bind you?
Kayla Rutledge has an MFA in fiction from NC State University. She is the recipient of the 2019 James Hurst Prize for Fiction from NC State and the 2020 Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Prize in Creative Writing from UNC-Chapel Hill. Her work has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Literary, Waxwing, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a debut novel.
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