Poet of the MonthrbdRax King, poetry, poet of the month

Rax King: February 2018 Poet of the Month

Poet of the MonthrbdRax King, poetry, poet of the month
Rax King: February 2018 Poet of the Month
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That Eden

 

I wish that I could sometime eat an apple

and have it just be me eating an apple,

not all sacred and mystic and symbolic.

Rax King is a dog-loving, hedgehog-mothering, beer-swilling, gay and disabled sumbitch who occasionally writes poetry. She wrote the collection The People's Elbow: Thirty Recitatives on Rape and Wrestling (Ursus Americanus, 2018) and her work has also recently appeared in Five:2:One, Bad Pony Mag, and (b)OINK Zine. She can be found on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as @raxkingisdead -- say hi :)