Shakthi Shrima

Shakthi Shrima’s work appears or is forthcoming in Triquarterly, Best New Poets, BOAAT, and Copper Nickel, amongst others. Shakthi Shrima appears in her unmade bed. She can be forthcoming.

Contest Winner, Poetry

Self-Portrait in Lust

By Shakthi Shrima

I vulture myself when I touch you, /
my stomach its own feast, my tongue a prayer for a tongue.