Chamber of Secrets and Split
Ari Lisner
Issue 27
Poetry
Chamber of Secrets
She has us pull over for Pumps
On the way back home
Full of beet salad
2006 Toyota Corolla cruising
A place for our bodies in space time tits and ass
But I was still me in the strip club
Unconventionally attractive
Thinking
What if we kissed and got hatecrimed in the parking lot?
What if our brains were some really good beef tartare?
And when we fucked later the release felt like raw egg being swirled in?
God
Dinner and a show
There are girls dancing on a stage
Looks like the dueling platform in Harry Potter 2
Which I point out
A kiss to shut me up
My hand up her big baggy shorts
Her warm thigh
Not thinking about wizards anymore
Her soft face in the light of the ATM
▲
Split
We could be bananas in pajamas
But you’re high
I wish it never existed
All of the horses would have to either live
Or not live
Through it
Ari Lisner is a poet, journalist, and researcher based in Brooklyn. Their journalism and poetry has been featured in GQ, Allure, Love Injection, Wonder, Peach Mag, Dream Pop, Dreginald, and others. Their work captures queer living, intimacy, and culture, often against the backdrop of New York City and its iconography.