The Second Week of Teaching First Grade | Abigail Conklin

Hey, new girl.
You do yoga, right?

We oughta have a staff
art class. Get you
to model naked.

Shove
an apple in your

mouth

Abigail Kirby Conklin lives and works in New York City, where she is a writer, education developer, and program manager. Her work has been featured with various publications/projects, including The Lampeter Review, Flumes Literary Journal, the forthcoming issues of K’in Lit Mag and Curlew Quarterly, and Indolent Books’ What Rough Beast series. She can be found on her socials (twitter and Instagram handle: @a_k_c_poetry), or in most coffee-providing establishments.