{"id":637,"date":"2022-08-23T08:42:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=637"},"modified":"2022-08-23T08:43:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:43:41","slug":"two-by-dom-witten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"Two by Dom Witten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Acid Pillow Talk<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Deception isn\u2019t the only way to manufacture
eulogies, mushrooms and oranges. 
Magnetic fields can procure the same thrill.
Omission \u2014intentional or otherwise
neighbors the red handprints
stroking my hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eulogies, mushrooms and oranges
fulfill the prophecy of disappointment.
Omission \u2014intentional or otherwise 
isn\u2019t the culprit
stroking my hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fulfill the prophecy of disappointment
or don\u2019t become someone I love.
Isn\u2019t the culprit
something else dead?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t become something I love.
Soap box a stock photo
or stain someone else dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stock photo a soap box
deception; the only way to neighbor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

manufactured handprints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Vents and The Windows Don\u2019t Open<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Me and Eve in apartment two split
custody of a purgatory demon.
Her therapist suggested she name it
but we agree it\u2019s best not to name that beast
whose mourning routine consists of filing its nails
between wood boards and insulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wildlife Extinction Man conquered
most of the colony who used to rustle
the safety of Hoarders,
Wannabe Opera Singers and Artists.
Last January he set traps under the house
with their favorite irresistibles: pepper jack cheese,
warm body syndrome, cinderblock apologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a younger sibling\u00ad\u2014
we don\u2019t talk about the hot water pipe incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eve say bang a tv remote
on something heavy so it don\u2019t feel
welcome. Consequences need
grit behind them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ain\u2019t no space in my bedroom for
more blank histories since
I started playing patty cake with
the tiny red fingers reaching
for one more look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

________<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dom Witten is a Black poet raised on the end of a one-way street in Detroit, MI. She received her MFA from the University of North Carolina Greensboro with special attention to process-based learning. She is a co-founder and program director of the Poetics Lab<\/a> which facilitates inclusive spaces for communities to engage with identity through poetry and performance of the self. Dom\u2019s poems are obsessed with establishing a future with more joy, sass, naps and emotional accuracy.<\/em> IG: @domthepoet22<\/a> & @tPoeticsLab<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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