I tell Mary Magdalene an emotionally unavailable 33 year old man can’t save her but I can
“allow myself an ounce of temptation, / run finger over ragged cuticle and think of my tongue running / along her nail bed”
Bleah Patterson
Bleah (blay-uh) Patterson is a queer, southern poet born and raised in Texas. Much of her work explores the contention between identity and home and has been featured or is forthcoming in various journals including Electric Literature, Pinch, Write or Die, Phoebe Literature, and Taco Bell Quarterly.