Devereux Fortuna


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

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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

 
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segments
recessed⁃⁃borne up⁃⁃

reticulation’s abeyance

accommodating my

stare

 
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when regulated⁃⁃
culled purse⁃⁃
still,

incremental
rebounds: want

for desultory and
liability to⁃⁃
abridging, only

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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

 
 

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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.