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Noel Sikorski

Noel Sikorski: Fuck

May 12, 2011 by PBQ

The first time I swore was on the swings in Pusan, maybe I was six. I remember because my mother caught me as I sliced the air singing fuck and shit and asshole, my feet pumping harder than my heart. But I can’t remember how I learned to cuss, as my classmates enunciated it. Children […]

Filed Under: Contributors 76, Issue 76, Poetry, Poetry 76 Tagged With: Contributors 76, Noel Sikorski, Poetry, Poetry 76

Noel Sikorski: “Make it like your skin”

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

The milk falls like bird-shit, spreading web-like as it hits the black surface of Sal’s coffee. “That’s not you, peaches,” he says, his long gray whiskers jailing the yellow of his smoking teeth. In the back office, Laz does blow, white as the gallon milk pulling my hand closer to the paper cup coffee still […]

Filed Under: Contributors 79, Issue 79, Poetry, Poetry 79 Tagged With: Contributors 79, Noel Sikorski, Poetry, Poetry 79

Noel Sikorski: Eczema

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

The allergies have taken my older brother’s body. At 5’11, Chris is a hundred and thirty pounds of inflamed epidermis. Everyday, for months, he scratches until blood and skin pucker into hard helmets of scabs, crafted to be pulled off. Culpability, here, is obvious. The specialist warns us to watch his diet and gives a […]

Filed Under: Contributors 79, Issue 79, Poetry, Poetry 79 Tagged With: Contributors 79, Noel Sikorski, Poetry, Poetry 79

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