Monica Kagan
“Thorns”

Thorns

Extending my fingers,
thorns prickle

I am a supplicant
in the soft petals of desire
for the intimate other

Skin and salt,
I explore
Your soul’s orbit,
I trace

Discord detonates
Thickets like daggers
penetrate shriveled leaves

Intertwined
I cannot find
Myself

Monica Kagan lives by the sea in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. Her poems appear in New Coin Poetry Journal (ISEA, Rhodes University), Crack the Spine, and Anti-Heroin Chic, among others.
Twitter: @MonicaOFAH
Instagram: @monicakaganpoet