Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure When no one was looking, you hid a mango in my mouth, green with growth. Overnight, it ripened into a sunset. Like you, it begged to be swallowed whole. You’d asked me to save you a sliced share, I know, but I couldn’t....
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure I paint my lips with cheerwine fine and seduction and fingerspell you to sleep with silky palm and butterfly kisses. And there is God in this place tonight. That is undeniable. The sounds we make shake dust from the...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure It don’t gotta be all puppies and kittens, altars and status updates, #smitten. Just make sure you get me a fruit cup, spiced the way I like it from the mango-man on the corner. Come in while I bathe talkin’ about my...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure To love me, you best love watching the moon and the stars. Know where Jupiter and Venus show up in the Northeastern sky. To love me, you must love the silence of New York at 4 in morning. You must love the corner of...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Love is about imagination. So I got on the number 1 train headed uptown, and announced to no one and everyone, that I, was available. I sashayed down the center of the car Shaking and shimming, Slithering down a pole...
