WHEN OUR DESIRES SHIFT, WE CALL IT RECOVERY
Poetry by:FRANCESCA KRITIKOS
WHEN OUR DESIRES SHIFT,
WE CALL IT RECOVERY
My sickness
isn’t worse
than anyone else’s
but I’m too dark
to turn blonde
There’s more shame
in asking for the thing you want
than there is in taking it
e.g. the way I used to
bleed
which was only by force
It’s true, once you fill a hole
its shape will change
to outsmart you
Now I’d rather have the sun
in my eyes
than yours on my back
I’d like to be
hard to find
in a wide open space
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Bio:
Francesca Kritikos is the author of the poetry collection Exercise in Desire (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2022), which was selected as one of Bookshop.org’s Staff Picks. She also wrote the poetry chapbooks Animals Don’t Go To Hell (Bottlecap Press, 2021) and It Felt Like Worship (Sad Spell Press, 2017). Her works of poetry, autofiction and nonfiction have been published in English and Greek by ITERANT, Spectra, Wonder, Blush Lit, The London Magazine, Θράκα, Χάρτης and more.More From This Issue...
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