“Intima Fatima” by Yuna Kang

Intima Fatima

Fibrous dimension: heart lungs liver nerves heart lungs liver
nerves, neural livelihoods where touch begins to touch Me, the woman

moves coolly past, her dark curls radiant in the late autumn cool, my pulse begins to
waver, my hands clamber like icy glass, (i am in love with this girl, but wait for heart lungs

liver nerves heart lungs liver nerves, breathe in breathe out, tonic executions, breathe-)

ing, i-n-g, the action of doing something. Verb state present form breath heart liver
lungs breath heart liver lungs toxic livelihoods help Me. A breath in from the past. The

smell of cheap body spritzers, burying my nose into thick, dust-laced
curls. Bodacious and warm. (you hurt me, i struggle to protest, you hurt me bad

ly breath body liver lungs breath heart body lungs breath in breathe out. The woman
walks by me, not you, but still the proximity of love was close enough, the

opportunity at chance fantasy apparent enough, and my heart has vibrated into mesh
jelly. I haven’t the courage for love anymore.

Yuna Kang

Yuna Kang is a queer, half-deaf, Korean American writer based in northern California. She loves postcards, crows, and cats. Yuna is also the recipient of the 2024 New Feathers Award. Their website link is: https://kangyunak.wixsite.com/website

Headshot: Yuna Kang

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