Ekphrastic Pantoum on Revenge
I black cat my path & crack the sky.
Let me be too much for any man.
An anger-gouged
atomic burn in his mouth.
Let me be a man—
love-difficult. I’ve untethered
from tenderness & mouthed my burn
to beautiful blue.
Untethered love,
a gouged
& beautiful blue-
black crack of sky.
Let me be too much for any man.
An anger-gouged
atomic burn in his mouth.
Let me be a man—
love-difficult. I’ve untethered
from tenderness & mouthed my burn
to beautiful blue.
Untethered love,
a gouged
& beautiful blue-
black crack of sky.
Simone Person is a Black queer femme and two-time Pink Door Writing Retreat fellow. They are the author of Dislocate, the prose winner of the 2017 Honeysuckle Press Chapbook Contest, and Smoke Girl, the poetry winner of the 2018 Diode Editions Chapbook Contest. Simone grew up in small Michigan towns and Toledo, Ohio.
Art: New Beginning #61, Encaustic on Paper, 2020 by Chizu Omori.