BURNING ANSWERS
everyone said green
so it was green
in my dream i was bleeding
i was “on” my period
what else can furl like an asshole?
i felt like i was “on” to something
GOONCAVE
have you heard about gooners? they are these guys
who are so addicted to porn and masturbating that
they’ve turned it into this kind of transcendental
meditation. i wish i loved anything as much as the
gooners love gooning. i’m a goner for other people’s
desires. as soon as i shut my eyes there they are.
shooting into a void of longing. they somehow program
themselves into bisexuality. isn’t that beautiful! i wish
more people experienced desire thus. this is why I
love the internet and i glaze my gaze over their words
they’re so needy i need it too. is there anything better
than the word goo? it oozes molasses-y over your
tongue you can’t help it. i get tongue tied all the time.
pushing the words out of my wet mouth.
APOCALYPSE LATER
when i see a cyclist pumping against the wind
to climb a hill into the sunset and disappear
i know the rush in their bod is god-like
such sheer being alive and i wish i were them
i’m so greedy every other body beckons me to
want them though i do want them i want to
suck their happiness out and hold it
in my belly i can’t believe i want so much
as a wafer melts on a tongue i would melt
into a puddle of cum if anyone touched me
even half-decently or if i could rub myself
against the seat of a bicycle it might
propel me forward in life until all ache
is god it’s a wonder i’m still breathing
KISS ME
things become containers of language
like a mouth, for instance,
the knot is language
like an ideal
more human than humans
more right
is “the dark audacity” a pissyfit?
is it a pussy?
when i say “i love you”
what i mean is that you are a room i enter
when i want to feel something
the thing about your face
is that you have these wonderful lines
that frame your mouth
as if everything you say is a parenthetical
Emily Bark Brown is a poet from Mobile, Alabama and Brooklyn, New York. They co-edit Hot Pink, an online poetry magazine. They are not single but they are available.