Ariadna Maksin

Ariadna (Arina) Maksin is a poet and neurobiology researcher. The founding editor of Stemlit Review and an alumna of the Iowa Young Writers Studio, her work is published or forthcoming in Scapegoat Review, Eunoia Review, and Taipei Poetry Collective, among others. She splits her life between the West and East Coast, and her time dissecting either diction or brains.

Contest Winner, Poetry

Cherry-Tipped Triptych

By Ariadna Maksin

“stay beautiful, skin rabbits, / luster in the hollowness. look / how the wolves circle, wanting, sifting what’s left / by the wound-winds / whispering”