Poetry
From Issue V (2020)Fractals of Skin Hunger
by MOLLY FULLER
we are mostly water everything we love
precious and scarce vast, flowing, unknowable
ever more longing awestruck
ferocity unthinkable to lose
such a world: wetlands, corals forests, mangroves, fish, seagrass
no restraint of the habit to be exploited recklessly
thorough enmeshing water collects other water
a fragile tendency holds bodies together
skin against skin gathers us toward recursion
reunion of circling lichen on granite
patterning desire after our violent natures
friction, altercation, alteration, fission, recalibration,
irreversibly, you said always, always, always
Hireath | EMMA GOLDGAR
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 in., 2020
Molly Fuller
Molly Fuller is the author of For Girls Forged by Lightning: Prose & Other Poems, Tender the Body, and The Neighborhood Psycho Dreams of Love. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is a doctoral candidate in English at Kent State University.
Emma Goldgar
A self-taught painter from Salt Lake City, Emma Goldgar uses realistic, surrealistic, and conceptual styles to capture the human form and transpose it to a dreamy, natural environment, sparking the wonder and wistfulness of childhood.