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Brianna Noll

The Art of the Insult

Artless, bloat-kidneyed gibbet.
Cudgel, implement of pain
and death, how you lash.
What a lovely container you
are, shrouded in the old
razzle dazzle: a trick—a delight!--
a trick. In the end, you are
just a hologram, and I stick
my finger through your eye.
This is how we demean.
We wee lads and lasses--
we can be such worms, burrowing
for devices to widen the space
between us, turn nouns
to verbs: fistulas to festers.

In the Gown I Wear to the Uprising

We all made our clothes and mail
for the occasion. Some melted down
their own cutlery for a helm or gauntlet
or gorget, melted their last coins
and pulled them, molten, taught
to lace into links for hauberks.
But I made myself a gown, every
thread unraveled from the cape
of a fallen king, a cloth my family
had been weaving since the beginning.
I could fit a crossbow in my bustle,
throwing stars in the balconette, but I
do not. There is a politick in these
clothes, but clothes mean differently
than actions, and our actions are clear:
we make, and wager, and make. It is
in our blood to make, not to make bleed.

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    • Interview: Rebecca Hazelton
    • Interview: Brian Barker
    • Interview: Beth Bachmann
    • Interview: Dean Rader
    • Interview: Jason Koo
    • Interview: Daniel Handler
  • Reviews
    • Shayla Lawson's I Think I'm Ready to See Frank Ocean
    • Danez Smith's Black Movie
    • Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds
    • Benjamin Alire Sáenz's Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    • Justin Torres's We the Animals
    • Erika L. Sanchez's I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
    • Karyna McGlynn's Hothouse
    • Richard Thomas' The New Black: A Neo-Noir Anthology
    • Kristine Ong Muslim's Meditations of a Beast
    • Patricia Colleen Murphy’s Hemming Flames
    • Elizabeth A. I. Powell's Willy Loman's Reckless Daughter
    • Alexandra van de Kamp's Kiss/Hierarchy
    • C. Russell Price's Tonight We Fuck The Trailer Park Out of Each Other
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