glitter fangs
Brandi George | Poetry
–rosasite & hemimorphite
of copper oxide
zinc disrobes for the golden
light beneath the oak tree scraps
of otherworldly remnants falling
each leaf contains symbols claw-
letters blue & orange at the edges
the shimmer of life among death
silicates whip familiar tongues of fire
black orange turquoise gray & white
shimmer under A A A sharp B
rhythm of flute-helices tetrahedral voids
shadows knotting into themselves
this one calls to us demands attention
magnetic attraction silk
asking to be unraveled crystal
song ore song electric wolf howling
Brandi George is the author of Gog (Black Lawrence Press, 2015), Faun (Plays Inverse/Press 53, 2019), and The Nameless (Kernpunkt Press, 2023). Her most recent collection of poems and paintings, Deus Absconditus and Love Letters from Outer Space, co-written with Michael Barach, is forthcoming from Kernpunkt Press this fall. Her work has recently appeared in American Poetry Review, Fence, and Orion, and she has been awarded residencies at Hambidge Center for the Arts, the Hill House, and the Time & Place Award in France. She teaches writing at FSW in Fort Myers, Florida.