Giulia Bencivenga

Plumage

our metaphor

did not arise

from language

but in the desire

to LOOK

at [...] and proclaim

TREE

LEAVES

BARK

the attributes

conquered

by money

and trade

from here

we also get

PEST

ROT

in language

you are still

alive

it is

a shadowed

gift

that obfuscates

[...]

the one

you sat

under

while i

clamored

MELANCHOLY

DISASTER

REGRET

that little link

between sound

and ego

utterance humbled

its sorcery

tangential

Giulia Bencivenga is the author of GIULIA BENCIVENGA IS A MANIAC (Inpatient Press, 2019), Unreasonable Whole (Gauss PDF, 2019), and CUD (nueoi press, 2020). Their work appears in Peach Mag, Wonder, Adriadne Mag, Blush Lit, and other places. She runs the reading series Two Snake in Los Angeles (@twosnakela).