‘Queer as in Fuck You’ by Elyssa Tappero

Impossible Islands 7
by M.S. Cohen

Queer as in Fuck You

i am TEETH TEETH TEETH
void dressed in bones
supernova saliva

i am SNAP SNAP SNAP
air raid siren smile
hyperactive entropy

i am CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH
galaxies mashed to pulp
canines dripping starblood


Elyssa Tappero (she/her) is a queer pagan who writes creatively about mental illness, spirituality, queerness, nature, death and disasters, and how it feels to be alive for the end of the world (which is not great). She resides in the U.S. and you can find her work at onlyfragments.com and on Twitter at @OnlyFragments.


M.S. Cohen is an artist, writer and musician born in the United States and residing in Toronto. His artwork focuses on existentially topical themes like alienation, dislocation and the construction of selfhood in a shifting semantic landscape.  https://www.facebook.com/marccohentoronto