"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.