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By MK Kuol

Sometimes an ordinary act of kindness can become enormous when imagined from another creature’s perspective. In Rescue, MK Kuol turns a small encounter between a human and a drowning fly into a meditation on mercy, survival and how the rescued might understand their rescuer.

when, this afternoon,
a fly fell into my cup of water,
i let him drown not. instead,
i gently spooned him out & watched
over him until he gathered himself
& whirred away. perhaps now.
perhaps now, he is somewhere telling
his friends, with a halted face, how god,
in his boundless kindness, retrieved
him from the cold grab of death.

— MK Kuol

Author bio

MK Kuol is a self-taught poet from South Sudan whose work has appeared in The Selkie Publications, ANMLY, Beach Chair Press, Konya Shamsrumi, Kalahari Review and elsewhere.

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