3 Poems
By Sy Brand. Published on March 11, 2023.
Bone, alongside
bone could pierce me, inside
in some hidden place, I too
have bones, to pierce the clouds
with the sharpness of me, I dream
about it in hidden moments, you,
would you like to pierce the clouds with me?
would you leave
for the air
with me
with daggers of bone
and carve
a hole
in the fucking sky
from our bodies
and die,
would you like to die
in the clouds
with me
and watch
our skin
feed
the earth
with
me
?
Apocalypse on a Friday Night
Blue frilly sweaters and pink
brass knuckles, heels shaped like
a dead deer drinking appletini
served in truck tyre, football
mascara over nails
painted with crude oil,
bras for buds, testosterone botox,
muscles are two for one at Penny's
this salad dressing has
anger issues, steel girder
surprise! Pumpkin spiced shotgun,
musk-scented bikini wax, girls
just wanna have turducken, aerobicise
riots in the streets, machine
gun blaze by the mall escalators,
fire in the soft sky,
fire
archive live
XoXo_chrissygirl_oXoX just e—mailed me her
DOWNLOAD log she
DOWNLOADed my website
my AREA
is on her alienware
she put my vlog in
mp3 @ 96kbps i'm clipping
all over her bedroom her
wardrobe I'm in her discarded
underware v0.1 no patches in sight
i am a torrent
of noise and
artefacts she attached
a jpeg holding my AREA
over the recycle bin
i scream in modem and
log off
Sy is a queer non-binary Scottish poet. They write through the haze of cat-/child-induced sleep deprivation to make sense of gender, relationships, and ADHD. Their debut chapbook, Cloud Picker, is upcoming in 2023 with Thirty West Publishing. Find them at sybrand.ink and on Twitter @TartanLlama.
