i love organ donors
echo chambers
a hike
birth
vlogs
hour-long mortality
podcasts
ad-free
spiraling
in the silent
snow
white
cells
my small capacity
to process
the pixels
of this sharpening
world
sending nerve
signals
like–
I try not to question
myself
compilations
most frantic
911 calls
I practice asking
for help
when I need it
I love burner emails
free trials
a chance
to taste
the unlimited
hit a paywall
dream
dream
dream
entering football turf
splitting
my eyes fissure
back to fact
before anyone
clapped
body
intact
compact
IKEA bed
wet
from debris
of untapped
potential
after work hours
I love to go out
wear a nice dress
(waterfalled Modelos
with Joe
unpacked mothers
shared
a Lucky Strike
in the frost
like a couple
of WWII veterans
wrote three sonnets
before I was left
for rocks
in El Paso
what does that say about me)
((wrote a poem
with Sandra
my lines
we face each other
like fatality is licking
our backs
with a knife
it was supposed
to be erotic
but I scared myself
what does that say about me))
(((my first kiss ever
Matthew
Midsommar
cliff jump scene
graphic
watched it
a second time
alone
had a panic attack
what does that say about me)))
tonight
light my ego
down
to the filter
out in the open
garden
I prefer to go
without goodbye
leave bobby pins
in beds
smooth out
the wrinkles
over my cold
-hearted chest
clock in
say hi
hello
hi
I hate snow
sticking
fact
taking form
I hate jogging
but I run
desire off
to prevent
rapid disease spread
I’m a rabid animal
aren’t we all feral
for an idea?
CASEY HARLOE (she/they) lives in Cincinnati. Her work has been published in Poets.org, DIALOGIST, Belmont Review, Honey Literary, and elsewhere.
PETER NEWALL was born in Sydney, Australia, where he worked in a Navy dockyard, as a lawyer and as a musician. He has since lived in Kyoto, Berlin, and now in Odesa, Ukraine.
