Allie Kerper
crying is sexy
leak all over me baby i wanna feel
your sadness throbbing on mine press
your face to my body with wet
snot running down every crevice show me
blood filling flesh eyes red straining
to spill gasp erratic let me suck in
your screams wake the neighbors baby pound
all over my walls grab me in fistfuls salt
my skin with your aching don’t stop till i’m
soaked through ruin my sheets you’ll feel
so good baby so human
Weight Loss
I cut off half my body
weight and there’s space
in my jeans. I map it, brandish
copies at passersby. I joke
black holes and feel
whole, double portion
mattress. I sleep on bones
I thought I’d lost. I am
excavating myself, digging in
and digging this specimen,
so well preserved. I dust
myself off, settle
on velvet. I am on
full display.
Allie Kerper is pursuing a masters in creative writing at the University of Edinburgh. She helps edit 50GS, a digital literary magazine, and From Arthur’s Seat, an anthology of her classmates’ writing. Her work has appeared in The Inkwell and Red Weather. Twitter: @kerperplexed.