by Mackenzie Dunne

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Four years of bittersweet love bubbling back up

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Cherry tomato cheeks hiding to the left. A squeaking shopping cart, empty apart from a single-serve frozen lasagna, stopping to the right. Four years of bittersweet love bubbling back up to the once simmered surface of aisle four, witnessed only by the brittle store brand spaghetti and canned tomato paste.

[previously featured in Writing Hand Magazine]

© Mackenzie Dunne

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Mackenzie Dunne (she/they) is a senior at the University of North Carolina Wilmington pursuing Creative Writing and English. One day she hopes to own her own farm where she can live out her dreams of reading her works of poetry and nonfiction to her chickens, but until then she will continue through school.

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