It’s your turn to wake up at 2 am because you’re reaching from inside a dream to find a nothing thick as cotton candy, hold my sweet absence in your hands, lick your fingers savor a melting carnival bite pink fluff, swallow every single crystal and think about me biting your shoulder, torture yourself with stickiness between your fingers, the aftermath of sugar and heat
Shannon Barringer teaches English Lang in a public school in NC. She is half of the DIY MFA program known as Tuesday University. She is currently finishing her first chapbook, titled Attachment Wound.