hemmettburke

Queer poet and performer based out of NYC. Twitter/Insta: @hemmett__

New York, NY, United States

Selected work (5 publications)

Impossible Archetype, 2019

Abecedarian on 21st Century Mating Rituals for the Homosexual MaleAlways have a face pic. Lead with your best selfie, the one in your bathroom mirror where your hair billows like bonfire and you can’t tell how big your stomach is because your clothes are a desert in which men get lost and cannot ignore...

Impossible Archetype, 2020

Weary DancersGo, go, tiny dancer swirling on burnt orange tiles, fawn-limbed, stumbling in her swamp water tutu, air rumbling, her eyes full of salsa and daffodils...

Passengers Journal, 2021

Vanilla ShitWe kiss watching Glee, the pizza box open beside us like a cathedral. You fumble with the clasps of my overalls, and I can smell your cologne, the whiskey barrel freshness of your skin...

poets.org, 2019

On Bondage and Homoerotic ThrillsHe wants to tie me down. I sit across the coffee table, my arms caked in wax that drips from his mouth, a gaping smokestack pulsing feverishly. I calculate the loss...

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