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My eyes will freeze into black currants as I stare out from my gyring dome. My small rondure of scant residue; snow ticking against the glass. Waiting for the enclosure to crack. Waiting for my crow voice to thaw and seep its rusty glissade onto the silver platter of snow angels with blades for wings. Unglaciate this thing. Unfreeze the eyelash lace. Expose the inclement face of this dark expanse. 28
Horrific Confection Lemon pound cake is so heavy. She is a petrified slab. A thinly-iced temptation toward consumption. Hacking up albuminous clots until knotty strands entangle the glottis. A mangled lulla<strong>by</strong>– the skein of ba<strong>by</strong> blue yarn unspools from under her tongue. Dreamy depressor abrasive with granules. Feverish gleam of needles unblurs into sticky tines, hollow basins. Slow motion stirring. Gelatinous egg whites stiffen. Gold-tipped lacy peaks that always collapse beneath her hands. Swathes of mucus always ooze from slugs nestled inside her pastel cupcake papers. Red Velvet cake is so messy. Will she ever be done testing the pale underside of her wrist? Crimson wisps strain to escape as she struggles to grip slippery gobs of buttercream, silver flecks, raw eggs’ exposed yolks tinged red. She cannot whisk it away. The chilling metallic implements. The stained plastic measuring spoons hanging limply from sodden string. A rusty sieve damp with congealed rubies and tiny marmoreal shards. A steely cold mixing bowl distorts her powdered face. She is a wan and waning moon, marooned. She wields a misshapen pastry tube; squeezes out pasty roses onto her sunken cheeks. A shiny knife winks at her. It wants her– a frosted slice. Gaping and glazed with coagulum. 29
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Page 10 and 11: Morning Fragment Marmalade glistens
Page 12 and 13: Adornment Knives stuck out of every
Page 14 and 15: when flesh equaled rotten peach The
Page 16 and 17: It was the Shark Tooth Capital of t
Page 18 and 19: Lollipops The heads of Farrah Fawce
Page 20 and 21: The Male Gaze The chandelier won’
Page 22 and 23: Purple Slumped on a stack of black
Page 24 and 25: The truth is you recalibrate from f
Page 26 and 27: Your Pain Sculpture The bone shards
Page 28 and 29: I will send you a tiny envelope of
Page 32 and 33: Self Portrait as Gingerbread Girl H
Page 34 and 35: 1. 2. 3. Footage Still life with sp
Page 36 and 37: Glass Cake Plate My mother beets bo
Page 38 and 39: The Party Cheese Ball Mocks You Gli
Page 40 and 41: Abscess This charm school is a crum
Page 42 and 43: Sucky She introduces the leech into
Page 44 and 45: Costume Party Afterbirth You have c
Page 46 and 47: Maybe My Muse Is a Devilfish In a c
Page 48 and 49: Medusoid Phase Mary Janes with red
Page 50 and 51: girls girls holding their dresses d
Page 52 and 53: Don’t dare label us rabid or try
Page 54 and 55: Self Portrait as Semi-Amorphous Ent
Page 56 and 57: Oh Those Mercurial Wrists The way s
Page 58 and 59: Spilled Milk My socks smell of spoi
Page 60 and 61: Fete White wafers shimmy in this he
Page 62 and 63: Underneath the sharp, shiny things,
Page 64 and 65: The Angel of Death Some of us are i
Page 66 and 67: My aborted baby has been salted awa
Page 68 and 69: Frankenstein Crowned Miss South Dak
Page 70: *inspirations* The poem ‘Dollophi

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