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Koss

Ensnared/Discarded

​they rise then dout / the fire of Aries’ fleeting desire  / Báthory / out
of bounds / each broken promise / shaved to its flickering point
another innocent / gone / never seen / never touched / ruined
you coulda been a love bomber if you hadn’t been
30 years older / bursting those fire flowers / so flattering
and how could one have such susceptibility? ensnared
by your things to fix / catastrophes / shit-and-spin debris
tricky helplessness / your tacky excess / my value fixed in cleaning 
I was purposed / yet crippled by your games / subtle and not / and now
only remains  / your sweepings / what you bankrupt
the lion eventually tires of its gazelle / the tabby of its mouse
and what of these fallow pages? and me, so ordinary

Biography

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Koss (she/they/them) is a queer writer and artist with an MFA from SAIC. They have work in or forthcoming in Diode Poetry, Hobart, Five Points, Spillway, Cincinnati Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, North Dakota Review, Chiron Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, San Pedro River Review, Prelude, The Lumiere Review, Amethyst Review, Bending Genres, Kissing Dynamite, and many others. They also have work in Best Small Fictions 2020. Keep up with Koss on Twitter @Koss51209969 and Instagram @koss_singular. Their website is http://koss-works.com.
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