By Stephanie Karas
Copyright ©2024
After Jessica Guzman’s “Return to the Queue”
Tonight I crave / a body seasoned
with blood-blossoms / nails scratching
smooth skin / red like rosewood / push
my limits/ and make
me real / everything idles
into / radio static, the high fading
but notice / a voice hissing
with want / my lips
chapped and bitten / feel my
hummingbird heart / incited by jolting
nerves and soles blistering / the sting
that leaves me / either fragile or writhing
sweet / as the bruise / on a ripened
peach/ deserted /on a scorched
/day, a malfunctioned machine
choked / with adrenaline
About Stephanie Karas:
Stephanie Karas is a Lewis University graduate and the former Managing Editor for Jet Fuel Review. Her work has appeared in the Antigonish Review, Disquiet Arts, Creative Communications, 30 N, Lewis Voices, Quirk, and Wrongdoing Magazine.
Currently, she is continuing to pursue her master's degree in clinical mental health counseling. She works as a Graduate Assistant in her school's Writing Center, where she also leads the marketing team. Recently, she had poems published in the Broken Spine, Full House Literary, Eclectica Magazine, and Peach Fuzz Magazine.
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