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  • Home
  • About/Submissions
  • Masthead
  • Featured Poets Series
    • 3 poems by Chris Prewitt
    • 3 poems by Taylor Byas
    • 3 Poems by David Hanlon
    • 3 poems by Bailey Grey
  • Issues
    • Issue 1
    • Issue 1.5: Hozier-inspired
    • Issue 2
    • Issue 3: Recovery
    • Issue 3.5: Lana Del Rey
    • Special Summer Solstice Prose Issue
    • Issue 4.1
    • Issue 4.2
    • Still Standing
Scorch
 
Summer sun burns down:
clothes feel too heavy for comfort. The
air tastes humid,
breezes brushing wet over skin.
 
You’d scorch from the sun
alone, feel your skin going
pink, then later stiff
with a burn.
 
You’d feel the pink.
 
And with him: you scorch
under his gaze,
the embodiment of what
want looks like.
 
It’d encompass you.
 
Sweep over you, same way
you feel the heat of a thermos-brewed
tea blazing down your
morning-dry throat.
 
(before too long, you pray for winter)

Sarah Little is a sometimes-poet who scribbles when she remembers and gets tetchy when she goes too long without writing. Her work has appeared in L’Éphémère Review, Alien Pub, and Milk + Beans, among others. Her first poetry micro-chapbook, Snapshots, was published with Broken Sleep Books in July 2019.
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