Self-Portrait in Lieu of My EP
“It’s like that very first taste of hypocrisy, like that fetal position we practice and fittingly forget when the speakers pick me up with my filth”
Poetry
We are so grateful to all of our partner-poets for sharing their work with us—please enjoy their beautiful words in our Featured Poetry catalogue.
In Response to My Mother When She Says Hearing Me Read My Writing’s like Hearing God
“God // cannot be remission, the clear scan, a bell’s clang after my / last treatment.”
Huitlacoche
“Unhusk me if you must, call me / acquired, call me dirty, call me corn smut.”
Feral and Conjoined
By Nicole Homer
“They got in the car. All of them: the whore, the john, and me, staring at my knees. We were feral and conjoined from then.”
“How We Glitter Up” & “Shebang”
“In the upcoming years, or the morning or evening skies / we acquaint ourselves with slow deaths.”
Child of the sea
“My father knows me by names / that are not mine. / Tonight, I’m the fishwife.”
view from the highway
“immodest / of a rural town displaying like that // its hill long”
Hapnophobia or the Fear of Being Touched
“There is a word for the fear of water, but not of drowning. Another / for the fear of darkness, but not how it hides a person’s face.”
Two Poems
“an event-horizon / of question marks // all the way to / non-identity”