elementia
Affidavit with Language from Whitman’s “Song of Myself” (Leaves of Grass, 1st ed., 1855)
By Lukas BachoI stop some where waiting for you…. Yet you pretend I have gone!
I’ve scattered my ellipses like breadcrumbs in a public park.
It is 7:32 p.m.… I take refuge in your neck, my ear pressed close to your apple,
Back when I yearn to scrape you clean of seeds.
where sweat accumulated
By Olivia Williamscrest of my shoulder
fold of my thigh
my right collarbone
is stickier than my left
heather grey shirt
glommed to the small of my back
the armpits
always the armpits
advertising to all
“heat was here”