Current
Issue
Volume 12.2
Ashley Vogel
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Plucking the Last Petal
this is the end of the poem. it is not
a lineation of time or effort. i've sheared
off the tip of my brain to gift to you; parting.
the skull feels lonely in its delirium weight,
a vortex of nulled place. missing meat would not
recognize its own absence, nor the well of grief
that grows in its grief-shaped well. do you see this
razor. serrated memories. it drips honey red behind. it’s as if
this void space was meant to be youless: a casting
meant for no one, and there’s no answer if you call for it.
Ashley Vogel is a poet from Kansas City, Missouri. She earned her MFA from the University of Missouri–Kansas City and teaches creative writing throughout the KC metro. Her work is concerned with the body and how it navigates, resists, and is shaped by the spaces it occupies.
