by Chloe Colbert | Sep 16, 2023
Turing Test Turing Test or Language Gap or Aphasia I spent a month with a man who loved me in parts. My hair. My eyes. The curve of my back. The bulk of me, skeptical, overturned by the gravity of his voice and his earnest interest. In his kind stare and smile, I...
by Chloe Colbert | Sep 16, 2023
Alien Boy Draft The conversation starts with the reasons to deport me: -coming into the country on a bus, held by a stranger who smuggled babies for a living if this one cries, it’s over but I don’t, I am enveloped in a blanket that...
by Chloe Colbert | Sep 16, 2023
Undark Seventeen, or the year when—I stood in the kitchen, windowpane glass pulling opaque shadows across my flesh, across my mother’s petticoat worn low on my hipbone, an angle and plane waveform that was my body, desirable in its foal-like newness, my face...
by Chloe Colbert | Sep 16, 2023
Almendras Your eyes are beautiful, he says. My eyes are beautiful? she asks. They’re like little almendras, he says. : They fall asleep in nightmare. :: He dreams of a void so big he forgets who he is. He’s a dog digging a hole and the hole keeps growing and growing...
by Chloe Colbert | Sep 16, 2023
on earth we weigh the same as ever. and monday the embryo hatched in its mother’s tanning bed womb the short-legged blue-lit clam coffin dying in the corner of the living room she cried fat slug trails of synthetic sun as he came out, kicking, bleeding, breathing...
