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Interrupta: Two
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Interrupta: Two

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August 12, 2024
Painting of a room with a door leading to a balcony. A woman lays on a chaise lounge while a second woman sits behind her upright.
Two Women In An Interior, Henri Matisse, 1920-1921

Koss (she/they/them) is a mixed-race, queer poet, writer, and artist…

lavender menaces, one spare bedroom girdled by white walls, a dresser, and floorboards a matching vestal bedspread pillowed our uncoiling twice your brother tried to interfere prepped two rooms he said insisted, short of bossing you didn't care splintered stairs squeaked beneath tiny ghost feet skirring through the layered spite house squeals like feasting pigs clipped the air for angry hours and eventually, through exhaustion, ceased we were, at last, arrested between ups and downs the phantom monkeys to whom adults were rendered dead somewhere else processing the evening: too much Barolo the drunken ruckus your troublesome ex famiglia histrionics in its gamut of pitches and me, the outsider, muted, hand over glass none of it, the stuff of romance things are often not what one imagined in the letch of yesteryear still, your skin stirred a riot in my fingers my heart slipped its skirtings and the rest of the world went mum There was only the curve of your hip, a brushing of lips and how the night undid us
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Koss (she/they/them) is a mixed-race, queer poet, writer, and artist with publications in Chiron Review, Cincinnati Review (miCro), Spillway, diode poetry, Five Points, Petrichor, Beaver Mag, Sage Cigarettes, Spoon River Poetry Review, Action, Spectacle,  MoonPark Review, Gone Lawn, Variant Lit, Anti-Heroin Chic, San Pedro River Review, Bending Genres, Permafrost, Bulb Culture Collective, Prelude Magazine, and many others. They have work forthcoming in Hyacinth Review, Reckon Review, Sugar Sugar Salt Lit, Midway Journal, Anvil Tongue, and the anthology, Ovation. Other anthologies include Dead of Winter III, Querencia’s Winter ’24 Anthology, Secrets in the Garden Anthology, Best Small Fictions 2020, Get Bent, Beyond the Frame. They’ve received numerous award nominations and won the 2021 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry contest. Watch for their new chapbook, Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect, coming from Diode Editions in '24. Find links to their work at: https://koss-works.com. Connect on Twitter @Koss51209969.

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