I THIRST FOR YOU MY WHOLE BEING
︎︎︎︎︎ PJ Lombardo
︎ Aug 17, 2023
You bob candles from the ceiling threaded with tiny asteroid-hairs
A rifle pushes itself through my diaphragm
Sheep solid with mystic blinklessness
Earnestly I cork my spine
While pain marbles the roof
Where a hymnist bakes
& where the beauty of the desert suffocates itself
in a parched land i jaywalk like hexed bread
A rifle pushes itself through my diaphragm
Sheep solid with mystic blinklessness
Earnestly I cork my spine
While pain marbles the roof
Where a hymnist bakes
& where the beauty of the desert suffocates itself
in a parched land i jaywalk like hexed bread
PJ Lombardo is a poet from New Jersey. Alongside his friend Maxwell Rabb, he edits GROTTO, a journal of surrealist-grotesque poetics. He holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame, where he worked as a publishing assistant for Action Books. His work can be read in Mercury Firs, Heavy Feather Review, DREGINALD, Lana Turner Journal, and elsewhere.