“Is it the mousse / melting slowly on my tongue, the waiter’s betraying / glance?”

“the close press of bodied glitter / molting from words into movement. / language has never been a second skin.”

The digital collage, “Medicine,” is a meditation on delight. The bodies are the only light source in the piece, thus signifying the collective power in Black pleasure, of which you cannot erase.

“Last year, I earned a Bachelor’s Degree in the Fine Art of porn production.”

“My bathing suit was Coca Cola red”

“Late summer is the sluttiest / season my digital violet / crocs are in sport-mode.”

“In our pursuit of the fruit // we’d take the form of matter and myth – let time be / swallowed by the light, order by chaos, conviction”

“climbing toward / the night / my body / shatters / into stars. “

“I don’t like writing about sex. I’ve done it, of course. I mean, yes, I’ve done IT and I’ve done it, that is, write about it. And I’ll probably do it again, write about sex, I mean.”

“I’d built an Altar to Black kink because I was leading a workshop on introducing self-identified Black women to kink, so I dragged out practically every toy…”

“it is of interest to me / that morrocan-wool races knits against conspicuous colors / fabrics are of interest to me / concerned citizens”

“My head is swimming in J’adore, the office reeks of it. I wonder / who could ever adore / this expanse if it got any bigger.”

I am steeping tea. Jasmine Green Tea. / Fuck tea.

She knows that to choose is divine

no one taught me about / pleasure, is what I’m saying. I’m splayed / on your kitchen counter.

Consider the quotidian horrors—this life your 80s sitcom with a laugh-track, the audience who knows how this ends.

4 photos by Kylie Dawn.

the glowing,/torch-stricken thing I couldn’t quit.

One enters a Hellmouth like a snack but exits like a bullet.

184 miles on a full tank, snow on the ground, muddied as third act makeup, seventy miles an hour, headlight out, books at my side like wallflowers

When I began working as a submissive at a commercial dungeon in 2013, Fifty Shades of Grey was topping (pun intended) the bestseller lists…