Hock hostage | upside-down crucifixion | a modest meal | woodblock | tomahawk | wet thwack | quiet | blood-rocket | bird like balloon losing air | feathers | freakshow | feathers | black feathers
Reptile relax | a belt of brass on the brick pile | threat of teeth | terrible spit | shovel | severance | copper now coiling | awful afterlife | just hose of its throat | trash-fire heat | bog fetor | head ready + able to bite | fuck you up later
Boy borderless | mind oil-slick rainbow | smeary | on the spectrum | I’m the boy | humbled by | humiliated by | lights that lighthouse | no | chainsaw through | a few touches |
itching | the pink chapel
of my mouth | myself |
freakshow |
hands like feathers |
how do I lose my head | + still run |
become less animal | become okay feeling animal
Cover art: “Seraphim” by Badfuta
Kieron Walquist is a queer autistic writer and hillbilly from Missouri. He’s the author of Love Locks (winner of the 2022 Quarterly West Chapbook Contest), and his other work appears/is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2022, IHLR, The Missouri Review, Pleiades, and others. He received his MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and is a 2022-2023 FAWC Fellow.
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