By Brooke Ellsworth

Nay further, we are what we all abhor, Anthropophagi and Cannibals, devourers of not only men, but of ourselves and that is not in an allegory, but a positive truth / Just the other night I
read the receipt I threw away from the Emergency Room / A kiss for luck!

You drew a circle around
your mouth
as I answered
emails
to answer
yes
yes
yes
Sir,

Look
he put a hand
to his leg
shadow
a childhood
of reversed-
reaching into
tide pools
Ablebodied in
1643,
a blurred
spleen
Some dreams
are worth the
monotony
of love
[...]
the snow
turns the
block
white
I believe you
is the
answer
yes
yes
yes

Brooke Ellsworth is author of the chapbooks Thrown (The New Megaphone) and Mud (dancing girl press). She has recent work in jubilat, Spork Press, inter|rupture, The Volta and elsewhere. She currently lives in Queens, NY. (Updated May 2015)