Never offer your heart to someone who eats hearts.
—Alice Walker
Not insomnia but horses
galloping in my night chest
in the low plains
your blood is drained
of iron the hematologist said
eat more red
meat
binge vampire soap operas
half-dream of sucking a slick
thrumming heart.
This poem was featured in Volume 2, Issue 2. Click here to explore other pieces from this issue.
Gordon Taylor (he/him) is a queer emerging poet who walks an ever-swaying wire of technology and poetry. A 2022 Pushcart Prize nominee, his poems have appeared in Narrative, Rattle Poet's Respond, Nimrod, Arc, and more. Gordon was the winner of the 2022 Toronto Arts & Letters Club Foundation Poetry Award and a finalist in the 2023 Gival Press Poetry Award. He writes to invite people into a world they may not have seen.
