[…] and our spawn’s spawn’s spawn, raised on the sermons of our feasting of her body, will learn of her burning death after returning from the hard line of another continent in search of the soft petal of her skin to bleed her dry again, only to find a landing less hospitable than what we leave behind now—[the open palm of her scapula cresting beneath the pleasure of her flesh.]
DC Restaino is a writer and editor living in London, UK. His writing has appeared online and in print at Funicular Magazine, Horizon Magazine, Outcrop Poetry, Thread Magazine, Mulberry Lit, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming from First Page, Mnenotope Magazine, and Michigan Quarterly Review. He was a 2024/2025 emerging writing fellow at the London Library, and a current PhD candidate with funding from LAHP at KCL.
