BOOTYCALL INCANTATION NO. 1

blighted pupae from the fridge
singed lock of tar-black hair
teaspoon of milk
lunar blood
malicious lunchbreak nude
anatomy of slant
politics of sext
inverted cross
garden maze
mirror flecked in spit
cut of sidewalk salt
exhibit
every key
he’s ever owned
we fuck
his goodwill
bed in half

BOOTYCALL INCANTATION NO. 2

netted
cellulite
shades
of daydamp
thong
bus fare
wax
modelo
can
taste
of pillowcase
coital
afterquake
phone light
spill
the smell
of him
clings to
my fingertips

SEX TAPE

cock
-struck
famished
slick
in want a ripened head
mouth flecked
in rust and dislocated
water
place
a mirror before
the bed
my mouth
and its demands:
look at me and tongue
behind my knee
look at me and make me
ruin-ready
shutter
phone and camera’s
aperture
the Cloud erects
and pixellates
cum-crying
on a loop

CLIMAX

erotics of the barbican
philosophy of touch
pillar glass
captive hive
palm across my mouth
ankle in his teeth
egg yolk
oil
runs down the walls
the floor begins to sing

Elise Thi Tran is a writer and poet. She is the 2022 First Pages Prize winner and her work appears or is forthcoming in Apogee, Blackbird, Diode, Copper Nickel, The Kenyon Review, Petrichor, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. Find selections of her work at linktr.ee/elisethi .