Melissa Evans

Melissa Evans is an editor based in Oxford UK. She is interested in spaces where arts and sciences crossover, particularly ways in which the human brain perceives creative works. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Closed Eye Open, Cathexis Northwest Press, The Write Launch, and Moonlove Press.

after/before

he tells me my teeth                           are like loaves

my pillowa teabag      its muslin case

leaf-filled                         and i wonder if

that makes my head
the water

milk                             an insect

resting on the liquid
                                 surface—

body
bulged

                into the meniscus

he optsfor an insect         is

bothered by the lack of
                                     specificity

turnstowards the wall

and it holds
him

as i murmur       that jam
is on the shelf—                                     butter too

that i will always have a 
                      kettle on the boil

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