"Anomaly" by Larissa Monique Hauck
Ode to Kate Winslet's Hand by Scarlett Peterson
as it slid down the well-steamed window
of my first and favorite sex scene. It is
expected that I say someone slid into
her, but it was a movie, he wore a sock
or a jockstrap or something to cover his
dick. A stranger calls me a dyke one day
and I think about her, how I fell asleep
so many nights to the sight of that hand,
that steamed window. How beautiful it is
to know something is fake and still to love it.
How strange to fall in love with a lie dressed
in black and blue lace, twirling the tie
of her gown in mid-air, dropping it
to the floor. Then the sketch, the blue
stone between her breasts a caricature
of love, blue enough to be false. How
long it took me to realize it was her,
not Leo I was watching for.
of my first and favorite sex scene. It is
expected that I say someone slid into
her, but it was a movie, he wore a sock
or a jockstrap or something to cover his
dick. A stranger calls me a dyke one day
and I think about her, how I fell asleep
so many nights to the sight of that hand,
that steamed window. How beautiful it is
to know something is fake and still to love it.
How strange to fall in love with a lie dressed
in black and blue lace, twirling the tie
of her gown in mid-air, dropping it
to the floor. Then the sketch, the blue
stone between her breasts a caricature
of love, blue enough to be false. How
long it took me to realize it was her,
not Leo I was watching for.
Scarlett Peterson is poet, essayist, and lesbian. She is currently working on her PhD at Georgia State University. She received her MFA at Georgia College. Her work can be found in Moon City Review, The Lavender Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Peculiar, Pidgeonholes, Gargoyle Magazine, Ponder Review, Madcap Review, Counterclock Journal, The Shore, Poetry Online, Skink Beat Review, Eunoia Review, and more.
Larissa Monique Hauck is a queer visual artist who graduated from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2014, where she received a BFA with Distinction. Her artwork has been featured in multiple regional and national group exhibitions as well as a growing number of international exhibitions. She has been selected for inclusion in events such as Nextfest 2018 (Edmonton, AB), Nuit Rose 2016 (Toronto, ON), and the 9th Annual New York City Poetry Festival 2019 (New York, US). Her drawings and paintings have also been featured in publications such as Creative Quarterly (US), Wotisart Magazine (UK), Minerva Rising (US), and various others.
