Fleshy Girl Seeks Mortal |
Elle J. Snyder
I am a woman possessed.
Beelzebub fingers, turning everything into flies.
The same touch runs over every lover
I have. The same rot
in every bed. No body wants you when
you turn them into flies.
Leviathan heart, always hungry
and never full.
I keep chewing the marrow
of lesser men
hoping it tastes like love.
Baal hips, seeing prostrate bodies
and calling it worship.
A false deity in the fresh curves of
my womanhood.
I am a woman possessed
of everything
but herself.
Elle J. Snyder (she/her) is a trans woman, poet, and weredolphin from Staten Island. You can most often find her eating tiny crabs that wash up on a dirty beach, or haunting your bathroom mirror (shouting really nice things at you). Her work recently appears in: Sardine Can Collective, Discretionary Love, Unendurable, Backyard Lit, et.al. She is also the new spokeswoman for Jane Link's Meat Sticks- "Cause Women Need Meat Too".