Nicole Oquendo
“the iron hook”
you’d grip the iron hook and pull
enough to seat my brain just so
to leave me needing
an obsidian knife to trace my skin
to go the lungs the heart
washed and jarred
when it’s time to wash my body
in the bathtub sputtering
you can pretend i’m him
“with horns and hands”
i dig to you with horns and hands /
when you turn the world
i dangle there from hoof to sky
with no air left for mewling
/
you fill your scales with molten lead
rising only vapors turned to stars
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