by JESSICA VAN DE KEMP
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You wear your ribbon like a concubine. Black jackal of the Nile, you embalm your priests in the same minerals as the nameless (exception: Nefertiti, whom you hooked screaming like a red poppy through the soul and out the iron walls of Duat). Soon you'll rip magnificent your own heart – the ostrich feather like a giant millipede. Soon you'll extend your organs above the sun and swallow the self-reflexive scream. |
Jessica Van de Kemp, (BA, B.Ed, MA) is a member of the Ontario College of Teachers. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Haiku for Lovers (Buttontapper Press, 2013), The Danforth Review, Vallum, Branch Magazine, The Steel Chisel, Ditch, The Fieldstone Review, Halcyon, In Parentheses, Bitterzoet Magazine, Mint Magazine, Gravel Magazine, The Studio Voice, Wilde Magazine,Cactus Heart, The Mackinac, Miracle E-Zine, and The Wayfarer. Her bonbon chapbook, Four-Coloured Memory, is forthcoming from Bitterzoet Press.
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