LIVID LEGEND

IF YOU CAN LOSE YOUR TEMPER THEN I CAN LOSE MY MIND

[samazine]

did it help? did it hurt?

[malinaa]

Rivers Solomon, Model Home

[candiedspit]

Beautiful Pinterest poem I found 💋💋

[goreprofonde]

Most wounds are circles, so it’s no surprise

you’ll find me here. Alone. On my knees, on evenings

when the moon hangs low. The brown boy

behind the hole—not quite the size

of a cave or a cigarette burn. Splitting open

my lips the way a saint parts his mouth to banish thirst

or famine or to greet his flock. I have stories

and sadness to share, known men

who moan like injured dogs, others like horses

off to the glue factory. Their dignified shape

reduced by the deep vermilion of my rim.

I used to be scared. Eyes locked to the heavens.

My trembling voice wrapped around their hard-ons.

They only feel me through the hollow space

they briefly occupy. I am all mouth. Cavities and throat.

Obedient. Never see, never touch.

Some call for Jesus as if that were my name.

I have lost so much around here.

- Eduardo Martinez-Leyva, Portrait of a Boy on the Other Side of a Glory Hole.

[candiedspit]

A monk has a sex dream

[candiedspit]

Today’s Paris Review daily poem 🕯🕯🕯

[pronouncingitwang]

[image text:

Emily Moore

Girls

Ava taught me how to smoke / in the woods behind our high-school dorm. / We lay back laughing in the dirt. / Smoke crowned her like a diadem.

Once she lined the shower stall / with leaves and water hissed like rain / as I washed her long black hair. / She was drunk. We were sixteen.

Later there were other girls / who led me up dark, narrow steps, / or gave me drugs in Montreal, / or slid both hands beneath my hips.

But Ava was before all that. / There were no words for what we did.

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[kurganfilledwithbearbones]

albert goldbarth

[libertymai]

study of the love note

there is something about the action of folding that is integral to the love note. once folded, it’s charged with a furtive and hopeful magic, like finishing a spell

[softshoesong]

[heavensickness]

I tried magnet poetry

[adobecreativesuite]

Danielle’s blog entry on deadjournal from 2002 while she was on ecstasy in 8th grade

[havingapoemwithyou]

Xenotransplantation by Sam Sax

[heavensghost]

words are from 5am by Ex:Re sewn onto paper

My art Instagram

[arugulalover]

PRAYER FOR WEREWOLVES from We are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt

[beachf4gz]

actually i j wna post it in plain format :P comic i made for uni. it looked better irl

[beachf4gz]

this is how it looks irl what i mean by that... its j cute i wish i could convey it betterrrr via digital image sigh

[candiedspit]

My name is Jasmine Ledesma& I am a poet from Texas/New York whose work has been in Rattle, Crazyhorse and [PANK] among others. I have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times. I was awarded the Patricia Clearly Miller Award while in the psychiatric hospital. I have a chapbook out called Acid In Georgia with Bottlecap Press comprised of thirty pages of short fiction. I also have a novella called Shrine that has been released with Junk Press, which was shortlisted for the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize. I have a Patreon where you can access unpublished and new works for five dollars a month. It means so much to have a platform for my work& I appreciate any support!!!!! <3333333

[firstfullmoon]

Oliver Baez Bendorf, “Everything All at Once”