poetry by kiara nicole letcher
Hold Out Your Tongue
Lust tastes like cherry limeade
heart massive and indulgent
I am opening like the zipper
on the back of a party dress
My feelings are the deep end of a swimming pool
leave me here with my heady escapism
Daydream dripping from my lips
reverie the color of magenta breaking through trees
If you pull me back
do so by my throat.
Kiara Nicole Letcher is the author of Scream Queen (The Orchard Street Press, 2019). She received her MFA from The University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2014. Her first full length collection, Oxblood, is forthcoming, (Agape Editions, 2024). Her work has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Plainsongs Magazine, Adelaide Magazine, Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself, and is forthcoming in South Dakota Review.