Saturday, October 2, 2021

Noah Ross : Two poems

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[to know how beautiful] [as suck] [to flatten] [to kneel] [to lean]

[engulf] [the hunger] [when going] [mad in] [mouth]

 

[how it] [animal] [impatience] [when agitate] [all of the sudden]

[hungry] [no when] [mechanics] [famished] [no when]

 

[pup or] [inflated] [pump or] [so] [so] [the cheeks] [whole] [yearning head]

[back in void] [the void turned] [inflated] [the cheeks] [by blood] [the lips]

 

[the flesh] [wrapping as] [half-closed hazy] [the whole head] [yearning] [so] [so]

[action] [the whole bound] [action] [all of the sudden] [beautiful] [all of the sudden]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[to wish that] [to see the self as] [to see the self] [accessory to] [the mouth to]

[the single mirror] [the sap head] [to swallow] [to offer] [so] [so] [frameless] [without]

 

[adorn to] [hold in stomach] [to] [the arch to] [flatten before] [frameless] [the back]

[twisting such] [to dream the] [palms] [at the same] [at the same time]

 

[the neck gaze] [the irons] [the need to crush] [magnificent] [tethers]

[at night to imagine] [to groan] [greedy] [the square mirror] [lone] [dividing pleasure]

 

[& others] [dreams] [& others] [quench] [a thirst] [so sweet] [& heavy] [to lay along] [your face]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Noah Ross is the author of Active Reception (Nightboat Books, 2021), Types (Nion, 2021), and Swell (Otis Books / Seismicity Editions, 2019). A bookseller and an editor at Baest: a journal of queer forms & affects, Noah lives in Berkeley, California.