7.12.23
Who do you become through
the kinked nodes of the line
between self
preservation & annihilation?
In the horror film the killer corkscrews the human’s insides
out clogs the corpse with rosary beads
so that further movement is a question
of regulation finding purchase among
the buzzing frequencies of others’ prayers
(If the sun is not I am not)
Knotted up in the thronging day a permanence
praxis gathering
charred bits (fatty burst sweating out)
My line doubles over
in a disease of roses
5.05mi | 47:17
Phil Spotswood is a poet from Alabama, and a PhD Creative Writing candidate at Illinois State University. His most recent work can be found in Berkeley Poetry Review, Always Crashing, and Dreginald. He is a poetry reader for Spoon River Poetry Review, and Senior Editorial Assistant for Obsidian.