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Eileen Myles

Poetry

Winter 1992

Rut

By Eileen Myles

I feel like a baby reading a paper, an enormous stranger pounding between my legs. She flies, a wolf, she is green sizzling, remarkable she talks my sex talk she […]

Poetry

Winter 1992

Untitled

By Eileen Myles

I always put my pussy in the middle of trees like a waterfall like a doorway to God like a flock of birds. I always put my lover’s cunt on […]

Poetry

Winter 1992

Closing up Shop

By Eileen Myles

Those two calls sum my existence up. I creep into the smallest kind of day: October and it’s cold. Heat from the radiator makes the landscape wiggle. Thank god, those […]