unthread

i will build an altar with your teeth,
spread your sweater across the floor,
sprawl my joint sore body across the
threads in wait for you, loose the
thickest veins of my arms as a rope
to climb to me—your salted sanctuary
in wait for the candied blood rush
of you bound to me.

Kendall A. Bell's poetry has been most recently published in Olney Magazine and The Aurora Journal. He was nominated for Sundress Publications' Best of the Net collection seven times. He is the author of three full length collections, The Roads Don't Love You (2018), the forced hush of quiet (2019) and, the shallows (2022), and 32 chapbooks, the latest being Still. He is the publisher/editor of Maverick Duck Press and editor and founder of Chantarelle's Notebook. His chapbooks are available through Maverick Duck Press. He lives in Southern New Jersey.