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issue 1: CARNIVAL

cotton candy

SURADHA IYER
​i taste sugar on your skin. i 
am diabetic. i prick myself yet again
the cold insistence of a blunt needle
my body wants to resist. we don't.
i bite into the pink of my lower lip. the
pain makes me tingle. like your touch.
 
does a child refuse cotton candy 
on grounds that it makes her hands sticky? 
or that it leaves behind familiar telltale marks
on untainted fabric? that sweetness
is heady. i dissolve myself in your arms
sugar-spun coils to a welcoming tongue.

you hold on to me. i find form in a pink cloud
your next sugar high. i keep tasting myself
upon your skin.

Suradha I. is 22, a tentative poet, and would love feedback on @suru_uwu (Twitter).
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