Clitoral, and: G-Spot

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Clitoral, and: G-Spot Aimee Seu (bio) Clitoral Sharp spinesof a quickening star.Spiky, irresistible flinchas away from flamejilting. Twinge,coy fish frill. Pinguidhoneysuckle bud.Clicking of a lockpicked open.Paradise glimpsedin small flashesbefore opening wide.This sweet panic,captive hummingbird shrillas a dart. Sinewed capsuleof holy spirit. My body,the electric chairberserk. Little chandeliertricky & sweltering.My tiny second heartsings a laser.I am borne throughshattering glass.High-pitchedas neon. Daddy-long-legsof static light. Nerveslike copper wiringthe abandoned mansion of my limbs.( For a second, on the brinkunable to jump and then ) )my own earsseem to ring. [End Page 104] Bonfirefrom such a smallpiece of flint. [End Page 105] G-Spot An echo instead growing. Slow marmalodic takeover deep in a countrybeyond language, compelled as the tide, such lunacy & unbearable gush.Strongroom, throne room of baritone ache. Velvet hounds unreined.I am carnage become tranquil. July-eyed & drunk off the secret swell.Beast, overtake me as I desperately run. I am marble become milk. Gallant & godly,glutton of such gentle collapse. Heavy blanket lain in the sun. Hear yourself on the other side glowing and sighing, dragged into the good dream.Let me never return from this fugue— bioluminescent tropicof my flesh. I go silent, go blind. [End Page 106] Aimee Seu Aimee Seu is a third-year Poe-Faulkner Fellow in the University of Virginia's Creative Writing MFA Program for Poetry. She was recipient of the 2019 University of Virginia Academy of American Poets Prize, the 2016 Temple University Academy of American Poets Prize, the 2020 University of Virginia Henfield Prize for Fiction and recipient of the Mills College Undergraduate Poetry Award. Her work has appeared or is fortchoming in Ninth Letter, BOAAT, Redivider, Raleigh Review, Minnesota Review, Blacklist, Wildness Journal, Harpur Palate, and Runestone Magazine. She is a Philadelphia native. Copyright © 2020 Pleiades and Pleiades Press