Editor’s note: we will be delivering individual works from our first issue to your inbox daily, until we run out! If you want to view the full first issue of bloodbathhate, click here.A love letter from Charybdis They do not make room for women like us in this world— Loud, ravening, swallowing-up word water I strip bones sinking to the seafloor, crack hips in the crashing surf. Oh, lady, their fear-scent, sweeter than kisses on the mouth— We do not need teeth to feast on their fatness! All the sea sinks into me; rich, warm, teeming never—just there, almost, yes—quite enough. Voracious, vast and wide. Let us rumble, let us howl, let us devour all their young men down like cattle cloven-hoofed. Lean-jawed, teeth-and-snarl, beloved appetite: snap your six jowls heavy with sailor-meat, heave that sunny, sinuous flail marking death. Open his mouth with your baying— I will fill it with seawater! No, they do not have any room for you and I, sister, so we will take, and take, take; until we swallow up the world and there is nothing left but hunger and us.
September 7th: Poetry by Abigail Sims
September 7th: Poetry by Abigail Sims
September 7th: Poetry by Abigail Sims
Editor’s note: we will be delivering individual works from our first issue to your inbox daily, until we run out! If you want to view the full first issue of bloodbathhate, click here.A love letter from Charybdis They do not make room for women like us in this world— Loud, ravening, swallowing-up word water I strip bones sinking to the seafloor, crack hips in the crashing surf. Oh, lady, their fear-scent, sweeter than kisses on the mouth— We do not need teeth to feast on their fatness! All the sea sinks into me; rich, warm, teeming never—just there, almost, yes—quite enough. Voracious, vast and wide. Let us rumble, let us howl, let us devour all their young men down like cattle cloven-hoofed. Lean-jawed, teeth-and-snarl, beloved appetite: snap your six jowls heavy with sailor-meat, heave that sunny, sinuous flail marking death. Open his mouth with your baying— I will fill it with seawater! No, they do not have any room for you and I, sister, so we will take, and take, take; until we swallow up the world and there is nothing left but hunger and us.