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issue 10: DAYDREAM

i have a whole pinterest
board of recipes
to make with you

KLEIN VOORHEES
When I say I want a kitchen with a farmhouse sink,
I mean I had a dream of you as a honied
sun—burning me alive. I’ll tell you this at our messy
kitchen table, and you’ll lay another card,
two of cups, on the gingham vinyl
tablecloth. I look for omens in the orange bursting

beneath your teeth. I cannot dream without bursting,
by which I mean, I rebuild myself of clouds and sink
into the patterns we’ll build: coffee and slow vinyl— 
song spinning out beneath your honied
tongue. I’ll float round your hips and card
my fingers through the day’s curling mess

I wake sinking into messy sheets, vinyl-eyed 
honeydrunk fool, bursting open to fill my empty bed.

Klein Voorhees [they/them/theirs] is a trans agender poet from North Carolina, currently pursuing their MFA. You can read their work in magazines such as CP Quarterly, Monstering, and deathcap. Find them on Twitter: @kleinvoorhees.
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