If you hunt inside a body/ rummaging past the inflamed mosquito bites/ misspelled doctor’s notes/ collection of scabs and lists of words to look up/ you will find a peep hole toward a reflection/ of a part of you never reached/ sometimes books save lives/ this book/ saved mine
Inspired by Max Wolf Valerio’s “The Testosterone Files”
This is how to disintegrate/grab dandelion with head like frizzy wind mill/make a wish/you do not know the answer to/blow/then crawl away
inspired by David Wojnarowicz’s “Close to the Knives A Memoir of Disintegration”
Lips become another planet/military frostbite/a war against shapes/she/is/only as alive/as the hair/bundled around the earthworms/continuing to grow even though/she no longer/can
Inspired by…….”Kissing Dead Girls” by Daphne Gottlieb
Aimee Herman 