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...
by Chloe Colbert | Sep 16, 2023
Palmed Love A fissure threatened to halve us, a prosaic separation made up of dwindling passion and grating habits. We would forget the thin space where we used to intersect, where we would fold into each other as we watched movies on the couch. Where our...
by Chloe Colbert | Sep 16, 2023
Internet Brain Your crotch is insanely freaking itchy tonight. And you can’t do anything for it but contort your body into less irritating positions. And you wish everything would just stop. You wish your Internet Brain would go into Automatic Sleep Mode and...
by Chloe Colbert | Sep 16, 2023
Spoons I rejected the specialist in non-violent communication, the one who dressed like a princess while drinking apple juice from a challis, the one who understood the ways in which touch regulates the nervous system, leading to emotional alignment, and the...