The Back Door to Hell
The little entrance
seemed smaller than
a table.
*
Every day was
a birthday.
*
My sister was
a miser.
*
The floor lived in its
leather enclosure.
*
The floor
caved in.
*
There will be
no questions.
This Is An Awkward Monster
I have made
every mistake.
*
I have accumulated
the coldest nausea.
*
My outstretched hand, its
curving fingernail: these
are the only objects. They
are not flowers.
*
Their sound
is sickening.
Connor Fisher is the author of the chapbooks The Hinge (Epigraph Magazine, 2018) and Speculative Geography (Greying Ghost Press, forthcoming 2021). He has an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and English from the University of Georgia. His poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Typo, The Colorado Review, Tammy, Posit, Cloud Rodeo, and The Denver Quarterly.