Founded in the fall of 1991, Laurel Moon is Brandeis' oldest, national literary publication. Each issue we publish features original work from undergraduate students.
Let’s switch bodies.
I’ll use a crowbar to force
my chin over my head.
You can use your fingernails
to squeeze the cap off your knees.
My padded antennae will beg to feel
the inside of your armpits as we
chase each other with a fist-full of
desire. Caress me with your toes
before I shamefully swirl
my tongue around them.
Steal my lips.
Afterwards, we’ll exchange hands
so I grope everything you do
and you grope everything I do.
Let’s swim in our afterbirth
when you claw your way to my ribcage
and pry the gates open—
sensually lick my drum.
Joseph Potter is a senior at Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. He carries his voice that lingers along with a boom mike and tries to capture the thousand other voices of repeated movies, songs, and references—being comfortably confused is the goal.