Giant

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I’m walking away 

my gargantuan feet 

trembling the earth

shaking the ashes 

I left in the hearth

to Jotunheim I go 

 

you stay stuck 

in the concaves 

of my footprints

you are crawling

grasping gasping

 

left behind you are

whimpering blinking 

wiping the sand

from your tiny eyes

Author

  • Jacqueline Knirnschild is a writer from northeast Ohio. Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Poetry South, and Full Stop, among other publications. Her fiction received first place in the 2025 Steve Grady Prize. She holds an M.A. in English from the University of Maine.

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