MICRO

Wild

By NICOLE MCCARTHY | 10 OCT 2018

By Viviane Sassen — Courtesy of Pixabay via pexels

WANTED:
Someone to leave a hollow indent on the bed next to me.
My husband is gone & the sheets are cold.

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9pm on a Tuesday evening—
you could hear pine needles drop
as you wave that pathetic dick in her face.
you clasp her hands, again, as she whispers:
what have you done to my body?

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you said you loved fat bottomed girls
diamonds dazzling navels
tongues that unravel the night
tasting lonely & wild
etch a sketch memory
& lips rimmed with sugar
who don’t need terms up front
poems inked with Chanel lipstick
up and down 5th ave
by a laugh that buckles a chest

you said you wanted everything
but you just didn’t want me

Nicole McCarthy is an experimental writer who earned her MFA from the University of Washington. Her work has appeared in Glass: a Journal of Poetry, The Shallow Ends, Dream Pop Press, Memoir Mixtapes, Crab Fat Magazine, Ghost Proposal, FLAPPERHOUSE, Tinderbox Poetry, The Fem, Civil Coping Mechanism's A Shadow Map anthology, and forthcoming in the 2018 Best American Experimental Writing anthology from Wesleyan University Press. Her work has also been performed and encountered as projection installation pieces throughout Tacoma and Seattle. She can be found on Twitter @GarbytheSass and her work can be found at nicolemccarthypoet.com.