yellow years

Maria Duran

 

rot is good rot is all rot blesses all 
things with decay’s sweet kiss. 
musty-dark. in your arms i am
an unspooling of interactions - thief, 
mother, masturbator, terror in the night,
sweet child. in your arms
         i am pried open - my mouth an orchid with no winter. 
         with no winter. 
         all shattered cities grow anew small 
         thin mycosis. small thin instead-of-grass, 

not-flowers, not-fowl / new economics of forgiveness 
forgive us

we eat each other amidst the ruins. broad bites,
rounded muscle to chew slowly. 

parasitic no longer,
bourgeoisie-redeemed,
the body made a flesh-machine.

 in your arms i am pried open.
in your arms i am a good sacrifice 
a new saint. this city’s own wife, 
& mycosis is the name 
gasped 
under my spouse / unmarrowed bones shrinking, 
blooming a thousand times. feed on me / survive.


Maria Duran (she/her) is a PhD candidate, and finalist of the 2024 Lisbon Poetry Festival. Her literary work has been published Gilbert & Hall Press, Black Moon Magazine, tiny wren lit, Iceblink Lit, among others. Her art works can be found in several zines. (@m.mar.duran) • Instagram.

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