SOME REQUESTSSpeak to me in images similar to that gold ring around the old man's finger how it glints like the emerald-headed duck in sunshine a beautiful beryl use precious well-picked words to convey what you see because I'd do so for you I did make a dinner that upon my request is all of food the color blue people's brains do not register this color as belonging to most natural things and blue plates make people less hungry like a kind of stimulant like how after first meeting you I could not eat or sleep for weeks do it because this is how I want to make you feel listen to clandestine history the way I tell it story of the poet Baudelaire how his step-father sent him to India with hope of turning him the way flowers bloom holy and unfallen the Parisian writer returned home to streets where his heart instead beat just for the rot sweet acridine between legs splayed out for a secret sepal half-covered in crinoline ankle-exposed brought back from cabarets back-alleys to lace and linen-covered bed the exterior against lovers’ skin made to appear lovelier than any object or smashed ash of Gaulois opiate-imbibing law-breakers all crying out condemnation twisting amidst muffled moan a crowning or blessed curse which inside soft slip of pink seized bodies in a unison deeper than beauty or disease savage and evil coming to meet rarest blossoming stream of sighs listen listen and then love me like that Katherine MacCue is a poet and graduate of Hunter College’s MFA in Poetry program. Her first book came out in 2014, and her first chapbook, Cassandra, Cassandra, came out in May 2021 where she placed as runner-up in Quarterly West’s Chapbook competition judged by bestselling author Elena Passarello. Her work has been published in more than sixteen journals including Juked, VINYL, decomP, Word Riot and more. She currently resides in New York and works in a library.
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