Shall We Go For A Visit?
Julia Kizar
Come, voyage beneath the indigo entry;
Nevermind those blue flames guzzling the door,
Lull your fret when they cling to your head.
Oh welcome, welcome to the party.
Sycophantic scythe in the host’s tongue
Severs your awareness to the scene
In swift jabs evicting tenderness
From your unsuspecting eyes
Within a churned kaleidoscope you watch
His prancing figure elongated by escape
Stretched into silver goose necks
Reclined upon human bodies in chatter
Keeled upright you never untie your shoes
Open canvas over white sneakers
Polluted by the soles of invisible feet
Your lips plump with desire to speak
Words thrusting at your feeble windpipe
Until the pressure at your neck blooms
Into inky green and purple kisses
A mosquito pecks at your shoulder blade
And your skin pinkens with vexation
At the bitterness in your hand’s sudden bite
Your shadow is a flock of restless mosquitos
Shifting into bees that savagely scour
The surface of your body
Overcome by pockets of pain in scattered blisters
You search for slivers of clemency in surrounding faces
Estranged by bellowed laughter and conversation
They sting and they sting and they sting and they sting
Julia Kizar (she/her) is a third-year student studying English, Creative Writing, and Turkish at Rutgers. Born and raised in Titusville, New Jersey, Julia enjoys reading, singing, watching tv, and appreciating the outdoors. More recently, Julia’s love for writing—particularly poetry—has grown from her desire to honor and reconnect with her childhood self…the one who spent her days fixating on Percy Jackson & the Olympians and dreaming of one day becoming an author. “Shall We Go For A Visit?” was inspired by a dream—rather, a nightmare—and is her first published poem!