hunger pangs your throat a guttural word
press of midnight damp fingers into the egg yolk of my girl flesh
the split & the spill
utterance lapping tongue
pretty
pretty girl
(pretty dress)
inhale what clings to youth like mercurial vapor
sip it from the wellspring of my collar bone
my own blue want translated to a pale let
let of our small oblivion in a (compromising) (intimate) shape
let the small mouth kneel before i love you
coaxed to her through telephone wires
the same mouth stolen to the sonorous crack of a kiss
the body’s velocity more than the thought projecting it
how its echo lingers in the stale air natural as the laylines pull fissured through the fluorescent twilight
& condemned by vapid eyes of an empty urban wasteland
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Jessicamarie Wermes is a queer poet, from Chicago, who has been writing for as long as she can remember, whether it be short stories, song lyrics or poetry. She has one published book, through Bookleaf Publishing Company, an anthology named Cicadas in the Belly. Her poem [detangle] won an honorable mention in October Project’s writing contest. She has been published by over 10 literary magazines including, Eunoia Review and Carmine pen, Creation and Tension literary. she has performed several of her works at slam poetry events and is the founder of the Lonely Writers Club; a suburban writing group that hosts a poetry event called SLAMSHOP.
