By Karina Bush
The foreign body
Evasive, the grail
What exactly
Is my extent?
A groin pain
Dull, fear of loss?
An industrial sound
Machine under stress?
Trapped in a building
Built by other men?
Is it a slit
Almost feminine?
As beautiful
As the break in his voicebox?
Does it ossify
Make him feel old?
Did it evaporate
A cumshot?
Karina is an Irish writer, born in Belfast and now living in Rome. She is the author of three books, ‘Brain Lace’ (BareBackPress, 2018), ’50 EURO’ (BareBackPress, 2017), and ‘Maiden’ (48th Street Press, 2016). Karina’s work has also been published by Tangerine Press, Akashic Books, Morbid Books, Ragged Lion Press, the International Poetry Studies Institute, The Nervous Breakdown, Entropy Magazine, and more. @karinapoetess
