Dear Dead King

I was the Abominable Bride
& you were
an icon of the miraculous

One of us had to go

But I only wanted to give you
a light maiming
& some mouth opera

when you came tilting at me
with your crimson biggie

On the Horn of the Moon
I’m breaking dawn’s pink fingers
one by one

Your axeblades
still stuck in my back
like wings

I fly out over
our still-moldering swamp

—

From Snow by Lara Glenum–published by Action Books.

Buy the book here.

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Lara Glenum is the author of five books of poetry: Snow, Pop Corpse, All Hopped Up On Fleshy Dumdums, Maximum Gaga, and The Hounds of No.

She is also the co-editor of Gurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics, an anthology of contemporary women’s poetry and visual art.