GIRLFIRE | Erin Slaughter

Erin Slaughter is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Elegy for the Body (Slash Pine Press, 2017) and GIRLFIRE(dancing girl press, 2018). Originally from north Texas, she holds an MFA from Western Kentucky University, and is editor and co-founder of literary journal The Hunger. You can find her writing in Prairie Schooner, Another Chicago Magazine, Cosmonauts Avenue, Sundog Lit, and elsewhere. She lives in Nashville.   Blue Hole #4On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg gave the Pope a droneand I let a stranger fuck me in a public bathroom. A blue-green sparkle of breath on the neck has nothing to do with atoms, or crying. Knocked spread eagle on the carpet in grief, imagininghow the camera pans out. One long, slow shotthat stretches like a river across the ceiling, or a close-upof the cheese shards in the carpet. Tasmanian devils are being plagued by a deadly genetic cancer and I am answering my own text messages with a list of reasons everyone who loves me is wrong or lying. I am drinking a marga