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Hot Cognition


   



Could I unhinge your skulls
Stick my finger in the pink folds
The backdrop of how this is
To leap across a synapse
Takes force and displacement
All you want and don’t know yet
All wanting will ruin
I am the glittering adversary
Ask closed eyes what’s been said
Safety opens the rock nerve
For the dead to stream in
                                     Come closer
I need help passing out these sticks


 


Lucy Xiang-fu Wainger is from New York City. Her debut chapbook In Life There Are Many Things won the Black River Chapbook Competition from Black Lawrence Press, and her micro-chapbook How to Write an Essay is forthcoming from Palette Poetry. She currently lives in Chicago and works as a fifth grade assistant teacher.