Vise of LoveBy Sonia Di Placido
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after Basquiat
should it fall out
some screw should it loosen what would be left to make it work? chew or gnaw in place of the regular opening between the sharp metal clamp and the object of their affection held strong the sigh and the saliva of love seeps out like a dirtied used up oil keeps us tightly wound and warm well put together Enter, AmuseBy Sonia Di Placido
my key is turned from its lock
I am waiting for God, not You entering in a leathery epidermis doubled skin—the yellow-beige jacket hiding methanol in vein You told me it was a trick from the crow on the other side of town. These are countable lies— why do we do it? What’s not good for us is spreading everywhere but the bed. This is not I who enters here is another I— summoned Once, I had a friend whose namewas AphroditeBy Sonia Di Placido
All ready to drown in some body’s fresh lake
I dive to the bottom of slippery rocks and strange sand, my blame what hasn’t been rescued from this personality’s pit? weighted, all of it, I have held my breath for you, friend I kicked into our waters breathless because I gave you the greater service, I listened to your voice, let in the ‘troia’ weighted, all of it, I have held for you, friend become the torn-wise woman who was supposed to win over the whims of a dick sweating in heat. Standing at the bluffs weighted, all of it, I have held for you, friend O Goddess, what have your lovers brought? the forward walk of aging feet, my waning away from your beauty, once singing at us blending voices, the lusts we thought— these are mine to hold. WeedlingBy Sonia Di Placido
I am the finite vestibule
having eaten my seed head releasing exhaustion flowering for Spring my children blow what is left of me the veins of milky way my head weightless my seeded presence a disease to the blade that cuts me dandelion weed grow stem and stain I have my own way of cheating every body does Sonia Di Placido is a poet, writer and editor. Her works have been published in Jacket2, Canthius, Minola Review, Juniper, The Puritan, White Wall Review, Carousel and The California Journal of Women Writers. She is currently working on her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. She works part-time as a sessional instructor of English for Academic Purposes at George Brown College. In September 2016, she attended The China Writers' Association International Residency for the cities of Tianjin, Binhai, and Beijing. Exaltation in Cadmium Red was published with Guernica Editions in 2012, and Flesh launched in Autumn 2018. Reviews of Flesh can be found in The Temz Review and Quill and Quire. For more information: diplacido.wordpress.com
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