Night laid an infertile egg in Darkness by Nathan Spoon

t.eeth go

backward

through

\mountain

brush in search

of a more

radiant nipple

breast is

                              s u           a n t ed

   p                          ie                         s

                                     p pl .

                              a n   t      

by vagina

phone

hand me your

rubber

bible

brief liver

and me.shwork

lane ends

here

brownstone

roll first

then [.] kiss

later (when

the impossible

.ventricle

gets planted

Bio

Nathan Spoon is a bookseller at Parnassus Books. His publications include Oxford Poetry, Mantis, Reflections (Yale Divinity School), From the Lighthouse and X-Peri. He’s been anthologized in What Have You Lost? (HarperCollins) and is the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers' Conference and an alumnus of the Home School. He is the Associate Editor of X-Peri and a 2017 faculty member for the Modernist Social Network seminar series at the University of Pennsylvania.