puncture introduction
upstaged glandular
exuberance (be wallow,
in tempt floer :
a is
barren)
the eye’s reticence, can
profligate. acceding event
(relegate : translucent) without
broach
**
recalcitrance / ostensive
welled, tips unbreaking an
exigent mercy to
cup;. alacritous, after
crests too
willingly⁃
(I’d)
baulked, as you kept
receiving flushes from a cracked
sounding, and my muscled uncinchings
draggedpertinent
**
chroma
why
when no cause
undisciplining flinch
thrust stillness, meek by alarm:
outskirts’ thrush,
siphoning from unfelt.
and a nod for return, One eye laps the other bird
in triplicate. I can’t hear
the sky cream toward zenith where
different from the glassy glaucous whip,
I’m stuck in flakes
prefixing the ‘this’ of my rapt, roughly,
though my embitterment
makes tolerable a hurt of
appearance
…
then I remembered ‘oh yes here’
‘hello’ that some part
was doing ‘this’ (looking / )
held, away and slightly,
each thought dismantles by
more obtusely following
**
landscape
the aggregate of so many fine lines⁃⁃a
strain of
imperceptible thinnesses, compounded
by the mauve hue’s osmotic
pull on dusk. rather, surcease: not subtracting
a hypotenuse, but relieving unseen distance.
indiscernment: iterative depletion; toward
/ abrogates
(or to gestate a near,
gestate by deferring return’s
incline:
near
**
route hole
if I move slot by⁃⁃
erratically so
stoked contractions ;
enshrouding bursts that take
particulate, that
make the stifled, retinal in-
take
lapse by overestimation
*
segments
recessed⁃⁃borne up⁃⁃
reticulation’s abeyance
accommodating my
stare
*
when regulated⁃⁃
culled purse⁃⁃
still,
incremental
rebounds: want
for desultory and
liability to⁃⁃
abridging, only
**
spring
erogenous
inability
to recover from (light), accelerating
doubt in
foreground.
survivability, gradating distances.
so face in tact, speaking, I desire.
before getting in the warm
car that made me sick
in a corrugation…
and before I did push-ups
on the rug with a blue cone pattern…
I took off my shoes beside the bed.
**
need to
bough ⁃⁃ ; cinched of
flaccid prongs,until
diminution undifferentiates (don’t
proclaim)
i gird, upwardly borne
through ⁃⁃ or ⁃⁃ sideface of.
irri- imme-
in a way, rind
thinning, berate escarpment. film
berate, saddle hemming ⁃⁃
unprepared for flagrant
bestowals ⁃⁃ excelling my
practicality
**
DEVEREUX FORTUNA is a writer and visual artist. They are a Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University and received their PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston as a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Interdisciplinary Fellow. Their work can be found at or is forthcoming in hush lit, bæst: a journal of queer forms and affects, Triangle House Review, and elsewhere.
