How To Borrow Warmth
let me borrow your warmth for a moment is that a thing people borrow? sure how? like this
kuru kuru in the night felt like being dunked into a freezer and not unlike your fingertips
on my ribs trying to summon heat from my heart. how are you going to give it back? outside
the cabin, a big cat growls and a couple are arguing in tents on the lawn of the camp, I wonder if
they heard me calling you out your name how are you going to give me back it?
you’re silent and slant your lips over mine, and I hear the growls and the screams, and
goosebumps of the something icier than the chilled night run over my skin.
Makeda Braithwaite serves as an editor at the University of Guyana Press and as a Submissions Editor for Uncanny Magazine. Makeda’s work has appeared in Fiyah Literary Magazine, Dirty Magick Magazine, Luna Luna Magazine, Stone Poetry Quarterly, and anthologies from Brigids Gate Press and MVmedia, among others.
