BROWSE Columns
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a F O’H - JW engagement
Shadow mouthing slit in you, walk
tiny telescopes pacing about, misty
hold a candle in the prop man’s garden
fondling you stout purple pouting lady – look!
Into his braces furs something voluptuary
hear the tickling pulse, funereal, explaining
pale grey bleached heart erect
& up front a beating silent young thing
blown in a muffler – slit;
his actor voice already exposed
under a snowy bosom nestled.
Disguise it like the old, mumbling
unwrap the sheath of a slit picking
her teeth in the young man;
away among his feet weeks later
there the lead usherette goes under -
everyone muffled up inside
over a slit sparrow’s shell.
Lauren Kalita is a writer and artist living on Cape Cod in the U.S. with her family. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Discount Guillotine, Worms online ghost stories, Worms World’s Extended Lunch zine, Sissy Anarchy (as Lunare Aiktal), Spunk Art & Perspectives, Cape Cod Review, Lit Angels, Gilded Dirt, Still Point Journal, Big Red Cat, HOCUS, Violet Indigo Blue, Etc., The Columbia Review, High Shelf Press, Right! Right?!, and Long Shore Drift. Her feral wom+n art project, including collaborative photos as well as assemblages in the series “milagros” and “broken clothing,” has been shown in the U.S. across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, and California, as well as in the UK.
