Erica Brunner is a poet from Seattle. Her poems are forthcoming and included in Hanging Loose Magazine, The Monarch Review, WomenArts Quarterly, the Portland Review, Bear Review, Pacifica Literary Review and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in Poetry from the New School. She currently lives and writes in Brooklyn.
Virginity is a man’s idea
Lemongrass
steam in the shower
Chain myself to
myself
Let it blurt
My body is
a wire
I know where
to push
Pine scented candles
black silk pillowcase
I’m not trying
to keep my pussy tight
Studded chokers
Clematis through
the trellis
Lilacs in the back-
yard