3 Poems

Maria Sledmere

Xylitol

Serious butterfly recurrence
at my goal weight

Going extinct for real this time

Flattery will get us forever

⊱ஓ๑♡๑ஓ⊰

The nipple in white lace was really swell that decade

microplastics are harmful to woodland animals, duh

lady detectives smoking in screencaps are nice

this little doe has lana aesthetic

my heart emote terror is over

no one can tell me that i don’t look like a blithe spirit

mascara bruise opium syndrome

Mark oracular

girlblogging my feeding routine

nuts, berries, cigarettes etc

off-duty modernity

never hurt me

Red Ribbon Fibonacci

Scarlet canal of tresses cascade
the special ruination of cuteness
I have braided yourself to claim
love-hate relations of porn bots
imagining myself as a two-faced
cloud, every day grown sillier with
the fact of your hair run long
in my sleep and lovemade
the abundance of livid yeasts
in my honey era I tried to get
literal candles on credit or bliss
the girl reblog of being Bambi
with a Chesterfield and Casio
playing the hits, a lifelong
passion for swamp living
whenever memory is full
I go deeper into my post
compulsion, food going
bad to gouache if I just
delete grass and be on my way
The crash art of genuine vanishing
Collecting sugar mice and snowflake necklaces
I see myself bland as a snack
the invisibility word is “innocence”
eat shame lozenge
one for sorrow [?]
The card doesn’t say

Maria Sledmere is a poet living in Glasgow, Scotland. She is managing editor of SPAM Press, one half of Project Somnolence and author of books including Midsummer Song (Hypercritique) (NoUP, 2024), Cinders (Krupskaya, 2024), An Aura of Plasma Around the Sun (Hem Press, 2023), Visions & Feed (HVTN, 2022) and The Luna Erratum (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2021).