Going [ this deal | deal this ] Fast
People just like you
and that’s the end of the first
mane with claws
to trim empathy yawn.
My anacoluthon don’t
hunt none unless
habit forming in the rite
places people places.
This offering won’t
win bronze in lab
-yrinthine complex.
Titrate feel at home.
Vanessa Couto Johnson (she/they) is the author of the full-length poetry books pH of Au (Parlor Press, Free Verse Editions Series 2022) and Pungent dins concentric (Tolsun Books, 2018), as well as three poetry chapbooks. Most recently, VCJ's poems have appeared in The Shore, The Broken City, Rough Cut, and Landfill, among others.