affective turn

by Sarah Cavar

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after on dizziness by Jenny Xie

doubt
pleases in 
made of oil
and smelling 
of seedbone
a bulbous head
space, pulled 
grovelatorily 
to some tyrant interior 
some insult
of an inchoate fattening 
plumripe breast
of a bulb ––
forming the mouth
its accesspoint
a strict gaping sachet
dissemblanced 
stripped
of heretofore
cut to the tune of the 
dinosaur drone 
of the cry
of the hole
of the fluid
intobeing they which the comet
bequickened

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Sarah Cavar is a PhD student, writer, and transgender-about-town, and serves as Managing Editor at Stone of Madness Press. Author of two chapbooks, A HOLE WALKED IN (Sword & Kettle Press) and THE DREAM JOURNALS (giallo lit), they have also had work in Electric Literature, The Offing, Bitch Magazine, and elsewhere. Cavar navel-gazes at cavar.club and tweets @cavarsarah