Claressinka Anderson
On the Consumption of Rare Animals
When this is over,
when the bats lay down
their crowns,
when human mouths,
unlearning, uncover
themselves again—
take me somewhere
in your car. Anywhere.
Hold me. Breathe
on me.
—Submitted on 04/20/2020
Claressinka Anderson‘s work has appeared in Autre Magazine, Carla, The Los Angeles Press, Artillery Magazine and The Chiron Review, as well as in the anthology Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (Haymarket Books, 2020), edited by Annie Finch. Born and raised in London, Anderson is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the low-residency Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Los Angeles.
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