This selection, chosen by guest editor L.M. Cole, is from Trick Mirror or Your Computer Screen by tommy wyatt blake (Fifth Wheel Press 2022).
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under the fermenting sun / bright and serrated / rabid with brass blood / your skin loosened /
frothing and bruised / a soft sloughing / where you steeped in poached sunsets / steaming
marigold and hungry / weaving sweat with scarecrow weather / dead in summer / savoring
your body on fire / these realms effaced by the slaughtering heat / blazing through your teeth /
you seethed in grief / when dark snapped into reach
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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) lives with his partner and fiendishly goofy cats. he is the author of DITCHLAPSE / [REALLY AFRAID] (Querencia Press); So, Who’s Courage? (Bullshit Lit.); NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL HORROR! (Gutslut Press); and other titles. they are currently sifting through digital archives and graveyards and writing about their residual hauntings.
L.M. Cole is a poet and artist residing in North Carolina. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Bulb Culture Collective whose writing and art have been published with The Pinch Journal, The McNeese Review, Five South, The Dodge, and many other excellent journals and magazines. She can be found on Twitter @_scoops__ and more of her work can be found at linktr.ee/lmcole
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