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December 18, 2020 Poetry

Two Poems

M. Elizabeth Scott

Two Poems photo

CHIAROSCURO

-

Your hand and its physical touch
fuschia as you brush

The inside
of desire and nothing

I'll say it
on the skin of your tongue

Name and unname
your eyes and their silent ether

Because this glistens
at the pit of my experience

And until you acquiesce
I'll think

Always
of your opening

 

PHOSPHOROUS

-

I had been using my body
its beads and pigments

terraformed
a landscape
of sack cloth and ashes

You scratch
for as long as you feel
nothing

We are dealing with words
the shameless mass

our bastard
its fluoresence
the subterfuge of hens

Bury your face in my hands
your sweaty ringlets
a rhetorical bloom

M. Elizabeth Scott is a poet, Western esotericist and Hermeticist based in
Jersey City, NJ. She is the co-founder of experimental arts collective
Cixous72 and its derivative imprint, 72 Press, established in 2015 to
promote the innovative and eclectic works of emerging artists and writers.
Her poetry and essays have been featured in Newest York, Shit Wonder, The
Poetry Project, Refigural Magazine, and elsewhere. Recent presentations of
her text have appeared at Printed Matter, McNally Jackson, Codex Books, and
Montez Press Radio. She is currently an MFA candidate at Rutgers University
in Newark, where she teaches creative writing.

image: Aaron Burch


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