THE MOUTH THAT SUCKS THE BONE is a nightmarish joyride through a map made of want, a coming of age story colored by bruised knees, classroom fantasies, and queer confessionals––a seeping catalogue of wet appendages that leaves the narrator sharp with hunger and pleading for an anchor. Kimball is both calculated and collapsed at the foot of desire––gulping from the drain with roving thirst then let out by the collar night after night when the tap goes dry.
Illustrations by Michaela Krol
KAMAL E. KIMBALL an Ohio poet. On the editorial team of Muzzle Magazine, she is currently serving as a guest judge for Writer’s Digest. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Phoebe, Hobart, Cloudbank, Juked, Tahoma Literary Review, Sundog Lit, Bone Parade, Inverted Syntax, Forklift Ohio, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from The Ohio State University and teaches writing.
MICAELA KROL is an artist working in interdisciplinary media. She lives and works in Chicago, IL and has a BA in Studio Arts and Anthropology from DePaul University.
24 pages. Hand sewn. Cover laser printed on craft card-stock.
Originally printed June 2022 with a formal release on July 20th 2022
Illustrations throughout by Micaela Krol
Layout and design by Chelsea Tadeyeske and Edie Roberts
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