Kailey Tedesco
black velvety / black feathery
i, strangling, have kept pets —
spiders / bees / turkey vultures
all cramped inside my shredded
nylons made roomy
in me bestiaries lush
emerald as fungus
in me a wide rainforest splays
& the howl of canary fuzzes
in my throat ghosts go to Me
when they die & i cage
them like rosary
hear the cadence of possession
swarm my innards but know it is
only the weightless dry
of a cicada long sunned
over all these creatures
damned to eternities
grafted from my body's
starving
About Kailey Tedesco
Kailey Tedesco is the author of These Ghosts of Mine, Siamese (Dancing Girl Press). She is the editor in–chief of Rag Queen Periodical and a staff writer for Luna Luna Magazine. She frequently performs with the Poetry Brothel. Her poetry can be found in Yes, Poetry, Prick of the Spindle, Rogue Agent, Sugar House Review, and more. Her first full-length collection, She Used to be on a Milk Carton, is forthcoming from April Gloaming Publishing. For more information, please visit kaileytedesco.com.