Your tongue is lightweight
Like ceramic tiles
While you lick
Your lover in order to
Build a saliva-based
Terracade
You may be Shane
Henrik, Australian,
Architect, building
Your cubistic blocks
But Picasso beats
You to it without
Resorting to enzyme
Lubrication, bacterial
Decay or mucosal
Refusal, and the
Submandibular Gland is
Simply a glance away
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Photo “Guitar cameratoss” by Andrew Malone; licensed under CC BY 2.0
VI KHI NAO is the author of four poetry collections: "Human Tetris" (11:11 Press, 2019), "Sheep Machine" (Black Sun Lit, 2018), "Umbilical Hospital" (Press 1913, 2017), "The Old Philosopher" (winner of the Nightboat Prize for 2014) and of the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), and the novel, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016). Her work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. She was the Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. vikhinao.com
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