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Self-Portrait Without a Body

​            Volatile vesper flamed
                        to fallow
 
                        the space between
 
            one I slash
 
                        you and another. Come hither,
 
                        nether. Sexual dark
 
            matter: neither nor
  
nor or, either idea — ​
 
            or elemental
           
            et al. Object
 
            lesson in
 
abstraction, seen
 
            best when un-
 
                        seen. A question
 
                        answered with
                                    a question — 
 
                        a phantom
 
            ache, instinctual
 
stint. Can never
 
            leave
 
                        because was
 
            no, is     never. The periphery:
 
      capable
 
incapability, a future
           
            perfect verb.
                        Nerve now
 
verve that urges
            the verge. Else or erst-
 
                                    while. A breath
 
                        without lung. Open air. Still.
Picture
Ula Wiznerozwicz. From Behind the Curtain, 2009-2014. Courtesy of the artist.

Pica of Unsaid Things

​Yes, I swallowed them.
Those bitter bolts rust in acidic
afterthought. This tetanus
of tautology turns my gut a copper
gangrene, a belfry
swallowed. Did you know passive
aggression is so soluble?
A soapy mouth learns other ways
to speak: homonymic hymns
of lye & lie. The awful offal
become my loden, stinking.
Anger uncomplicates. But I gulped
the wrong way. I am a glutton
for bile. I make drinking
songs of silence. Chugalug catgut.
& choke it back. Wolf
down this I can’t, I won’t — ​
this yes, yes, I mean, don’t.

Emilia Phillips is the author of ​two poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, Signaletics (2013) and Groundspeed (2016), and three chapbooks, most recently Beneath the Ice Fish Like Souls Look Alike (Bull City Press, 2015). Her poems and lyric essays appear in Agni, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ninth Letter, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, Poetry, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. She is the Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Centenary University.
Ula Wiznerowicz (b. 1986) is a Polish documentary photographer currently based in Amsterdam. Her photographs have been exhibited widely with solo shows in Italy, England, and Poland. Working mainly within portraiture and social documentary photography, Wiznerowicz documents a particularly unique Polish/English perspective using the camera to explore narrative conventions with a powerful subtlety and poise. Her careful handling of subjects and their emotive stories has won her acclaim with most recently a Surrau Photo Win, shortlisted for the 2014 Daylight Photo Award, a Jurors Pick FotoVisura Grant, along with the Ideas Tap Portfolio Award in 2012, Channel 4/Saatchi Gallery Prize, and D&AD Best New Blood Prize in 2010. Wiznerowicz received a B.A. (Hons) Degree in Photography from Middlesex University (2010). A short documentary film about her work was made and aired by Channel 4.
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