Hadal Zone
“It’s an eyeless ocean, cold / and sibilant. It ruins me / to know that there’s an inner / body that I can’t access.”
Emily Adams-Aucoin is a writer whose poetry has been published in magazines such as Electric Literature, Frontier Poetry, TriQuarterly, Sixth Finch, North American Review, and Colorado Review. Her micro-chapbook It Adheres to Many Things won the Harbor Review 2025 Editor’s Prize. She’s a poetry editor for Kitchen Table Quarterly, and you can find her on social media @emilyapoetry.
“It’s an eyeless ocean, cold / and sibilant. It ruins me / to know that there’s an inner / body that I can’t access.”