Twilight in Pierced Velvet

Twilight slides into the edge of obsidian night

Covering the viridian cerulean orb we call Earth

In stardust and the hush of a secular solar eclipse

Cocaine Sunday

six swift successive stabs suffocation lines devoured quickly

anointing one as the invincible goddess of the dead universe

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Rose Knapp (she/they) is a poet and electronic producer. She has publications in Lotus-Eater, Bombay Gin, BlazeVOX, Hotel Amerika, Fence Books, Obsidian, Gargoyle, and others. She has poetry collections published with Beir Bua Press, Hesterglock Press, and Dostoyevsky Wannabe. She lives in Minneapolis. Find her at roseknapp.net and on Twitter @Rose_Siyaniye