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POETRY

10/13/2026

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by Kinsey Krachinski


The past is my DNA with pattern recognition

Those pock-marked red dots

in a map that tells you

Those moments you went wrong

directions to lead backward

the roads ahead are endless

and so the thumbtacks stay

What I never noticed

were the increasingly intimidating holes

Threatening to destroy the map underneath


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kinsey Krachinski is a graduate student in the English M.A. program at Indiana University South Bend. She works as a Co-Editor for The Preface Journal for Indiana University South Bend, and is a writing tutor for Pioneer Academics Writing Institute. Kinsey worked on the Editorial team for Bookstr and has had 45 articles about pop culture published. Her poetry and essays have been published in 11 journals and magazines, including Furnace, Valley Verbomania, Everscribe Magazine, Fresh Universe Magazine, Furnace (again), Just A Cuppa Literary Journal, South Hall Literary Magazine, Eloquentia Magazine, Neowise Magazine, The Chrysanthemum Review, Stick Figure Quarterly, and Indiana University South Bend’s New Views on Gender. She has also had articles published through The Preface Journal and Wildebeest Publishing.


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