Summer of Diseased Pussy by Heath Brougher

Moist drunk darkness; feeling through

something less than solid;

submerged coils of drifting gas, upstream,

to the head, where the air is;

the softness of shadows

moving in waves, with liquorblurred eyes

onward motion, up ocean steps;

something of a sprint; immaculately contour-void;

removed of space; time; of place

a shapeless gait; a skyghost of the water,

bubbling; exiting dankness with jostle,

for the pink parting; fingers find the abyss

obscured by the tang of blueberrywater,

iceflake dissolving, sugared, becoming—

the ocean, now a swamp stung by bugs,

flesh against flesh, a friction as the alcohol quells

the inhibitions, swapping fluid for fluid of

questionable health; evanescent existence

in pulp-form; nevertheless strutting away;

an exotic saunter; hungover morning rashes tug

stressfully at the back of the brain; vomit and regret pour

extraneously forth;  fear begins to coat the thoughts,

consumes the mind with worry, shame,

terrorizing it with the knowledge that, possibly,

the disease has have found a new habitat;

flowing whatever it flowed across the limbless bodies.

Bio

The poetry of Heath Brougher has been published in over 350 various print and online journals throughout the world. He is author of three chapbooks "A Curmudgeon Is Born" (Yellow Chair Press 2016), "Digging for Fire" (Stay Weird and Keep Writing Print Co. 2016), and "Your Noisy Eyes" (Stay Weird and Keep Writing Print Co. 2017). He received a Best of the Net Nomination and his work has been translated and published in Kosovo and Albania. He is the poetry editor of Five 2 One Magazine and co-poetry editor of Into the Void Magazine and was judge of Into the Void Magazine's 2016 Poetry Competition and editor of an anthology titled "Luminous Echoes," the proceeds of which will be donated to help with preventing suicide.