Josh Medsker and Adam Frese

I am Want


Danger lies

beneath the peaks.

I am he. I am

want.

I consume you. I am

control. Borne

of fission—base elements

rearranging reality.

Your weeping is my food. Blood

into blood. My eyes glow

in your pain. And I am hungry

again.

I will nurse your murder, for more

pleasure. More chaos and play—

You are my instrument.


Josh Medsker is a New Jersey poet, whose debut collection, Cacophony, was just published by Alien Buddha Press. (www.joshmedsker.com)

Adam Frese is an editor with Oxford University Press, primarily on the Oxford Bibliographies project. He also plays music, obsesses over anything Grateful Dead, and rewatches Twin Peaks on the reg. (freseadam@gmail.com)