KHÔRA’s Heat Issue is here ✨
The Things I Would Do If You Walked Through That Door by AD Nolan
Issue 53 Heat Issue Highlights
Welcome to KHÔRA’s Heat Issue.
Our second annual Heat Issue gathers work that burns—political rage, desire and longing, kink, self-immolation, transformation, and the many ways a body can ignite. As always, the pieces have been carefully curated to speak to one another, creating a conversation that unfolds across language and visual art.
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Happy Summer!
Leigh
Leigh Hopkins
Editor and Curator, KHÔRA
I’d put your entire body in my mouth. Not all at once, but
a slow devouring. I’d start with the edges, and I wouldn’t
be gentle because if you walked through that door I’d know
you’d found a way to open a portal, the sci-fi glow just fading
in the forest behind you, the barred owl a silent flyaway,
the night frogs all crescendo. I wouldn’t be gentle when
you walked through the door because if you walked through
that door I would know we would have time, finally, we would
have time to go slow and more, we could say things like
Have you ever? Me neither. Let’s never together. And I’d
go down on all fours just to hear you take some god’s name in
vain, desire a wet nimbus, the air gone all ozone. If you…
Read The Things I Would Do If You Walked Through That Door.
AD Nolan is a poet based in Europe.
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