September 13th: Poetry by Bri Gonzalez

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Thank you Bri for these two lovely pieces. We adored the Twilight reference <3

Let’s Take a Midnight Trip to CVS

Teeth full of pills pilled teeth teethed milligrams 
chalk residue molar measuring tongued focus 
balance canine cratering lungs dryswallow
when most don’t many too teeththroated 
teethbitter bliss sidewalkedoodled tastebuds 
blooddrawn maps my veins where I 
pinpoint places to beg and you
teeth off each one. 

"You better hold on tight, spider monkey."

          green stab | skin                                bouldered | cradle
              tinted death                                            | armed        
                  forest                                                    cracks
                needing |                                            domained |
              fluorescent                                          illuminates
              hell | hole                                           glance glitter-
             spat | pale-                                           coastcloud 
          break | a zoom                                          curious |
            saying out |                                                 loud
             siphoning                                               spidered

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Bri Gonzalez is a Chicana/e, queer poet and an MFA candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. Their work is forthcoming or can be found in Not Deer Magazine, Crow & Cross Keys, Janus Literary, Coffin Bell Journal, and more. She spends most of her time playing D&D, bingeing horror movies, and bothering her void cat, Dahlia (above). Check Bri out at bgwriting.org or @bg_writing on Twitter.