
Aminta Uly
THIS DATURA’S NOT FOR ME, IT’S FOR A FRIEND
i arrive at the cl(oi/u)ster in my sex robe:
preciously
lie prostrate & utter
i am the eternity sucker
famed for that great / abstinence
which famously! frames my
eternal autumn bod
these infernal regions
this ouch / this flower
to dispel all hearts
hell / o / & welcome
ON YOUR LEFT
THE TEETH-KNOCKING BARREL WAVER
AND INSOLENT TOAD RAFT
ON YOUR RIGHT
BIKINI SEASON
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WHO IS THAT SHRIEKING NOW
must be one of our dead coming home
with cold goss & lovers’ laurel
directing their heiress pleasure flowers to no one again
what do you do with a dead
give the rose a twin / “ NEVER ”
why do you keep the dead treats the dead loan you
this small pock / that aberration
where do you stash your pray
your patterns
the dead would love them back
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I AM A RED BLOOM, says the poison,
AND THIS IS AN OCEAN. TO CROSS, WE MUST EQUALIZE OUR POISONS.
Knowing this, the fish and I get to work eating and drinking the RED BLOOM’s spare
poisons. We eat red flowers, red grasses, red weeds, red liquors, red meats, red lights, red
hairs, red ales, red flies, red lips, red books, red hides, red myths, red nets, red wines, red
paints, red tops, red cuts, red bits, red inks, red lines, red kales, red vines, red fumes, red furs
and red fires until our eyes turn red and our noses turns red and our noses join forces and our
eyes join forces. And with our single nose and eye and head and the rest, we bloom together,
putting an end to years of strife, and putting an end to years. We leak in drop by drop. Our
leaking morphs like a bruise, filling up the whole shape of red-feeling like a swollen heart.
We red-swim vigorously among the other live cells, rushing together to the sites of the
wounds that need blooming. We raise growths from childhood. We dissolve scabs and thicken
the skins of the pains. We get lost, stuck, and dead along the way. We enmesh, causing the
body to swell further and become irritated. Red isn’t scarce. Red’s perfect: we feel no other
sensation than red. Enough, we say, and are born again. Then yellow leaks in and the liver
distends. We go to live in a nearby seagrass cluster as we adjust to new sensation. We wait.
The remaining poison crosses the mass of our body with the obnoxious force of a nosebleed.
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Aminta Uly writes about glitch, multiplicity, and quiet horror. They are a multimedia and interdisciplinary writer/artist, findable @ amintauly.com.