"UNSPOKEN"  

BY LIANA MINASSIAN

Remember the way we sat in cars,

groping under street lamps,

hot, breathy lust,

dripping window condensation

shielding us from view,

eyes and tongues

darting,

shouting pulses

quickening,

crazed electricity

shooting from fingertips

left lingering

on lips

that close

on feelings

carved into air,

breathed into silence,

our sighs

piercing the night,

deafening hearts

caressed by songs

speaking through us,

words — no match —

for bodies ignited.

Liana Minassian is a writer, poet, editor, and photographer based in Burbank. She self-published a photography and poetry zine called Solis Obitus in 2020, and is currently working on another zine featuring blackout poems. You can find her poetry in HyeBred Magazine, MORIA, Muddy River Poetry Review, and Prometheus Dreaming among others.