Cook, Juliet

Self Portrait As Semi-Amorphous Entity

1. Silly muffin-like thing
2. floating in a fizzy fissure.
3.  
4. Oddly fluffy little pink anomaly
5. sometimes has no ears, but still hears
6. through some manner of clandestine absorption.
7. A listening device a tiny warped sponge
8. implanted in the bottom of a silver foil
9. Baking and Party Cup w/ ruffled edges.
10. Impregnation by tainted sugar.
11.  
12. Inside a misshapen speech bubble,
13. toothsome words are birthed.
14. Incubate, overheat, burst. A spatter of
15. bloody latex, enamel, nougat, & nerves.
16.  
17. Through some style of self-referential abortion,
18. she evacuates doomish candy shapes. Inklings.
19.  
20. That’s not a piñata she’s beating
21. her own head against a doll house
22. door. A small demolition crew scuttles out
23. of a miniature bed; starts pulling her hair so hard,
24. her head flies off & lands in the cake pan.
25.  
26. That’s not a piranha it’s one of her
27. stanzas with gills glued on & heaving.
28.  
29. The spiky bite of a hellgrammite on its back
30. in heavy cream, swerving
31. like a possessed planchette.
32.  
33. The crescendo of sickly sweet stench
34. rising up from a pale blue fetal pig
35. it is time to dissect right now.