Ethan Fortuna
Winter 2024 | Poetry
two minutes
eventuation is a preset - a presettled
material . air pockets form in advance
as connective obligation . a finite horizontal
dream in doles .
doritos in compressed tube
between cheek & bottom molars
formed nets of bubbles that smelled
of hot sand ; undigested lust situating itself
around a lapse ; connection is
trapped air ; a condition of lubricated houses
suppose i ate chafed skin from my heel -
was a gash of oil - pellet -
bagged in pastel - covenant, deficit
Ethan Fortuna is a trans writer and visual artist. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University and received his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston as a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Interdisciplinary Fellow. He was selected as a finalist by Wendy's Subway for the 2023 Carolyn Bush Award book prize, and his work can be found at Black Sun Lit, beestung, TAGVVERK, bæst: a journal of queer forms and affects, and elsewhere.