nude / poem / with ( top : scar )

At this most excellent brink

where the body meets the flesh

of stirred Air

a leaf

drifting

Turns waning moons

against my gaze ––

We diagonal dance

I, a small pupil

child by ær crackling

hood

rocked by the gentle

cradle of wind

a muscle

Flexing relaxing

A project of vocal proportions

exi sts the mist of the throat

And some towering hope

makes soft

promise with sky

—Cavar

[sarah] CAVAR is an anti-genre writer, PhD candidate, and instructor of undergraduates on both u.s. coasts. They are the author of Failure to Comply (featherproof books, 2024). Cavar edits manywor(l)ds.place, and has had work published in The Rumpus, Split Lip Magazine, Electric Lit, and elsewhere. More at www.cavar.club, librarycard.substack.com, and @cavarsarah on Twitter.