Juliet Cook

Unnameable

The visage of a rotting baby bear doll is open.
I don’t name it Teddy. I call it limbless
luminary. Place one arm under my pillow,
its screwed up body and head under my bed.
The eye that dangles is my favorite one.
The other eye glares at me as if
I am the one who tore it out.

Brain Replacement Surgery

From deprivation
to brain contagion. Blurry
mental deficit

turns into oblong
panic button hard to reach.
Can’t tend to your own

contortionism.
Rotisserie chicken head
replaced your cooked brain.

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Juliet Cook's poetry has appeared in a small multitude of print and online publications. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, most recently including red flames burning out (Grey Book Press, 2023), Contorted Doom Conveyor (Gutter Snob Books, 2023), and Your Mouth is Moving Backwards (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, 2023). She has another new poetry chapbook, REVOLTING, forthcoming from Cul-de-sac of Blood in fall 2024. Her most recent full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti was published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018. Cook also sometimes writes collaborative poetry and also sometimes creates abstract painting collage art hybrid creatures. Cook's tiny independent press, Blood Pudding Press, sometimes publishes hand-designed poetry chapbooks and sometimes creates other art. You can find out more at https://julietcook.weebly.com/.