I.
Fucking faggots!
and the blast of a car horn
disrupted our good morning kiss
you pulled away
II.
I didn’t sleep with her
(out of spite)
her body moves under silver sheets
with the fluttering curvature
of a nudibranch’s gelatinous spiral
III.
I love you
Sally Burnette has a degree with majors in Creative Writing and Literature from Eckerd College. Recent poetry has appeared in Futures Trading and Sein und Werden and is upcoming in The Great American Poetry Show. This fall, she will begin her Master of Fine Arts at Emerson College.
Categories: LGBTQ+, Poetry, Themed
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Melancholy Hyperbole 