Monogamy
︎︎︎︎︎ Iva Moore
︎ July 20, 2023
His selfmade spiritual
orientation: rat in the
dark
The thinnest
distance: his gun, his
temple
Losing “agency” over
his own “life”
When I’m his white
turkey, I’m padded room
white
A good pervert
without earthly goods
We like to assemble the
cans
for the people who
collect cans
Mitigate the ways
to spell out “earth,
sex, and stones”
Holy transference,
my heroin baby
Answer: all or nothing
or reconfigure
that bralette
orientation: rat in the
dark
The thinnest
distance: his gun, his
temple
Losing “agency” over
his own “life”
When I’m his white
turkey, I’m padded room
white
A good pervert
without earthly goods
We like to assemble the
cans
for the people who
collect cans
Mitigate the ways
to spell out “earth,
sex, and stones”
Holy transference,
my heroin baby
Answer: all or nothing
or reconfigure
that bralette
Iva Moore is a writer from Waverly, Kentucky. Her chapbook Women Collapse Into / Better, Brighter Artists is forthcoming with Oversound.