By Schuyler Paige Brooks
Copyright ©2024
I ate an apple to its core.
Licked and sucked the mouth
Shaped holes left by my teeth.
I nibbled the fruit and remembered
People saying flesh when talking
Of meat: plant and human and
I found arousal as I tasted sweetness
Upon my own lips, as I thought about you
in the other room unaware.
About Schuyler Paige Brooks:
Schuyler is a MFA student at the University of Arkansas. They are a creator in several arts, a dedicated poet, and an avid reader. They have been published in Applause, an undergraduate literary journal at the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith, Isele Magazine’s Queer Joy Quarterly, and the inaugural issue of Shadowplay literary journal at the University of Arkansas - Monticello.