Yellow Mama E zine

ecstatic evenings

 

by Thomas Zimmerman

 

the steam obliterating jowls & chicken

neck my pentimento mirrored in 

the nighttime window   triple chin the slippage

of my masks   //   & doggo’s here my fanged 

familiar black as Acheron   along 

with you my angel tummytucked & pink

ambrosial surgery outlasting this

eternity or so we dream   we dream  

ecstatic evenings skin on skin as if

our love could rub it off   //   & in some essence

hence we’ll say we dressed in flesh we ruled

in borrowed robes   you’ll sing days Zim & i 

played nice but nights we liked to get a little 

nasty cat teeth dazzling in the stardust     

 

 

      Thomas Zimmerman (he/him/his) teaches English and directs the Writing Center at Washtenaw Community College, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. His poems have appeared recently in Circle of Salt, Rawhead, and Wailing and Gnashing. His latest poetry book is Free Range Angels (Cyberwit, 2025). 

Website:  https:/thomaszimmerman.wordpress.com  

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Bernice Holtzman’s paintings and collages have appeared in shows at various venues in Manhattan, including the Back Fence in Greenwich Village, the Producer’s Club, the Black Door Gallery on W. 26th St., and one other place she can’t remember, but it was in a basement, and she was well received. She is the Assistant Art Director for Yellow Mama.