The children are taught they are demons. A scourge that’s inciting the wreckage of paradise. The holy men claim that, through torture, some salvation awaits them. By no longer being the children that they are: through the pulling of fangs, clipping wings. Through the turn of their bones in marble. The holy men spend years […]
CD Eskilson
CD ESKILSON is a trans nonbinary poet and translator. Their work appears in the Kenyon Review, The Offing, Cincinnati Review, Passages North, among others, and they are the poetry co-editor at Split Lip Magazine. CD’s debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen, is now available from Acre Books.
