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From: Vol.12 N.01 – The Braided Gift

Adding Days to July

by D. Perez-McVie

I’ve had near kisses 

cupped in submarines

lows in unusable mental states 

inched out eels 

who pirouette awake 

lisping and tying 

me to banks’ possessiveness 

and a laminate acab glow 

a low tax rate the best confessions

tasty gnosis

regular ownage

and an unlaughable eel spirit

in subby merino sweaters

pronouned cicadas 

of unsynched arses 

I’m unusably alert

to the beaut attitudes 

in people dear to me 

atrocious mentalities 

allowing to allow 

kisses I attribute 

to stable genuinenesses

aches from the tribe 

of eloquent disguises

targeted at indivisibly souled locals 

sunning my sins 

for the regular sun otters

queuing all day 

to get sunned on 

by the sun 

and by sins 

my efforts 

and a cradled standard 

for indivisibility’s kindness

toeing the line of an elk’s

as if 

standing guard

by the torn 

standard files of leisurely position

my best agreements of sense 

queuing for the indivisible 

and peering into the available  

meaning of laughter’s best idea

Published: November 2025
D. Perez-McVie

is a poet and clerk. They are the author of Gender Is The Extent We Go To In Order To Be Loved published by Puncher & Wattmann in 2024.

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