Leather and Gauze by Kit Kennedy
Mouth conjures heat
of your absence.
I wear gauze color of hemlock
petition the small. You clad leather
& beg ice. You say only this moment
of pain.
I succor the fragile
withdraw my sparrow-bones
sip something room temperature
& red.
Kit Kennedy’s publications include: All Things Girl, Arsenic Lobster, Blood Orange Review, Bombay Gin, Cezanne’s Carrot, FRiGG, Mannequin Envy, Merge, Runes, Saranac Review, Snow Monkey, Van Gogh’s Ear, Velvet Avalanche and forthcoming from 5_Trope, Lavanderia, and Uphook Press. She hosts the Gallery Café reading series in San Francisco.
of your absence.
I wear gauze color of hemlock
petition the small. You clad leather
& beg ice. You say only this moment
of pain.
I succor the fragile
withdraw my sparrow-bones
sip something room temperature
& red.
Kit Kennedy’s publications include: All Things Girl, Arsenic Lobster, Blood Orange Review, Bombay Gin, Cezanne’s Carrot, FRiGG, Mannequin Envy, Merge, Runes, Saranac Review, Snow Monkey, Van Gogh’s Ear, Velvet Avalanche and forthcoming from 5_Trope, Lavanderia, and Uphook Press. She hosts the Gallery Café reading series in San Francisco.
