h/ow s/imple a v/irus
h/ow s/imple
a v/irus
Aurielle Marie
from 45.2
you
in the way
you
that haz ard scent
that way ward resin
what a fuck ing lust price
you s /cold sore you tend/er me and no t me thing
you here & her/e &
here too
i smell you you and you
the
way the un god/ ly stay you stick
you stuck
i un trick
your snarl
out my brilliant open ness
try try tr y to p/ luck my own self out
the more i pull the more you
stuck more stuc k more trick more always more
you gift in side an/ other un plead gift
both you & he left scent
stuck here
rid me rid me plea se of the sw oll en tinge
i pull pull pull more
and more m ore s tuck
i k no w you here
s/ cold in g me a lecture. each a veiny throat
comic. you go/ ne & yet you here swim ing up my bridled flesh
& damn you b urn
hard heav y. nigga why you burn b urn burn me?
i pull and pull and
pull y/our honey blood out this
here bone. out. out. out. from
her/e and here & here.
you
in the way
you
that haz ard scent
that way ward resin
what a fuck ing lust price
you s /cold sore you tend/er me and no t me thing
you here & her/e &
here too
i smell you you and you
the
way the un god/ ly stay you stick
you stuck
i un trick
your snarl
out my brilliant open ness
try try tr y to p/ luck my own self out
the more i pull the more you
stuck more stuc k more trick more always more
you gift in side an/ other un plead gift
both you & he left scent
stuck here
rid me rid me plea se of the sw oll en tinge
i pull pull pull more
and more m ore s tuck
i k no w you here
s/ cold in g me a lecture. each a veiny throat
comic. you go/ ne & yet you here swim ing up my bridled flesh
& damn you b urn
hard heav y. nigga why you burn b urn burn me?
i pull and pull and
pull y/our honey blood out this
here bone. out. out. out. from
her/e and here & here.
Aurielle Marie is an essayist, poet, and activist hailing from the Deep South. She’s the 2019 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Retreat Writer-In-Residence for poetry, and has received invitations to fellowships from Lambda Literary, VONA Voices, and Tin House. Her poetry can be found in Adroit Journal, Vinyl Poetry, BOAAT, and Sycamore Review. Her essays are featured in The Guardian, Allure Magazine, Essence, NBC, and Bitch Media. Aurielle writes about Blackness, bodies, sex and pop culture from a Black feminist lens. Follow her: @YesAurielle.
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