full moon

Salient Magazine

Mar 24, 2025

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Bram Casey (he/him)

under skylight in black underwear

nobody knows me like i do

in my head plays

a shaky digi-cam video of the full moon from afar

and in the background

my frustrated mouth-breathing

the futile tick of the zoom wheel

scratched on the wall is a treatise on my morbid fascination with kissing in elevators my personal odyssey is the summer just gone the summer i fixed myself

played cyberpunk

and learned how not to have phone sex it’s odd

knowing a part of you dies every time you blink

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