KHÔRA's Heat Issue 🔥 | Incisor by Bess Fernandez

• Incisor by Bess Fernandez

• Issue 53 Heat Issue Highlights

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what i want is what my body says it needs,
cause effect
stinging nettles
your named raised on my forearm
touch the first letter,
my throat alight in your palm,
its angle how it folded
my knees to yours, then how
i breathed
the sound of my own teeth humming,
their swarm,
a gift…

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Bess Fernandez is a writer living in Seattle, WA. They previously ran the newsletter Gay Takeaway, which published a series of interviews with queer writers and artists about the food they love and the stories behind some of their most memorable meals. They are currently at work on a book of poetry about the best part of the human body. Teeth. They have been published in Lungfull!, The New York Times, and elsewhere.

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