from: Eurozone
Train
conductors who
can only
climax while
reading
Hannah
Arendt
“Bleat” is
always
the last
word you will
find
at the
bottom of any
woman’s soup
bowl
Because the
only cure for my
failed attempt
at auto-
cunnilingus is
Dialectical wife-swap
Agreeing to teach
seminar on father’s
“trumpet
hand” while mother
Relaxes by
the pool with hairy
chested
Kissinger
look-alike
“Because my
last three pap
smears came
back ab-
normal
French is no
longer spoken here”
Always eager to be
seductive
as Goodwill
Corning
Ware. There was
a time, not all
that long ago
when “tight vaginal
canal” was all
any one ever
needed to
Oyster
Which proves
I fell in
love with the last
three men I blew in
Athens
At times
strapped into car
seats, at other
times, thinking
too much
about
Kotex
I left in the Black Sea
Texting
“semination”
and phone auto-
corrects to
“seminarian”
and then to
“domination”
Masculine is never
accepting carton of
cigarettes
from back of
’89 Honda Civic
Meticulously
submissive
clitoris starts
to happen
with Prime
Minister of
France is surrounded
by large body
of water
Like love is so
much colder
when swallowing
Fear of languageing
sleeping
lover’s cock
contains one of
three vibrant
magnolias
Which episodes
from my
sexual history
are hiding in
the difference
between “magnolia”
and “marginalia”
Almost anyone’s
testicles are
capable of at
least one late night
“Origins
of
Totalitarianism” and
All of Joyce
Mansour’s
blue silk undies
Ann Pedone’s books include The Medea Notebooks (Etruscan Press), and The Italian Professor’s Wife (Press 53.) Her poetry, non-fiction, and reviews have recently appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Posit, Texas Review, ANMLY, and The American Journal of Poetry. She was a finalist for the 2024 Levi’s Prize. Ann is the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal and small press, αntiphony.
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