Poetry


[ P O E T R Y ]

 
 
 

 

the bite is immediately followed by a local pain


 


teeth bright


quick first, sweet


fruit and venom


to flirt, fangs


hook, groove, hollow


i crank my jaw


open, wider


than my waist


the warmer the woman


the faster she’ll go down


i’ve just enough


ribs to take her


in, toxins


to clot her blood


i swallow, i


keep


 

Livia Meneghin (she/her) is the author of the chapbook Honey in My Hair. Her individual poems and reviews have found homes in The Academy of American Poets, tenderness lit, Entropy Magazine, Tinderbox, So to Speak, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA at Emerson College, where she is now affiliated faculty for Writing Studies and Program Coordinator for EmersonWRITES.


 
Livia Meneghin