jesus saidi am crispyi saidprove ithe’s in my dmshe’s in my electronicmailing systemi am lyingon my bedcavorting with my cohortcrushing brews like candyconsolidating the sonnet formi’ve contemplated formingparatactic relationshipswith people i knowfrom the voidhey, here’s a parabola Ugo sleep on ithere’s some wilder airgo take a rideo mother merry mama miaall i want are wingsand some light conceptual transparencya touch of concertina wisdoma slurp of the angelichalo me fatherfor i have singedquickdraw me a circlei can wear atop my becurled headpaint me golden on the ceilingthen forget abt melike sistine candlesmy mother was raised catholiccause the temple cost a feemother gina mariethe bounty the imagei once took a vaguelyreligious walki stumbled into jesushe said helpthe weight of this woodis distributed unevenlyi helped him form itinto an Xhe was a tragic figurereally, i’d tell ppl lateri often tweak it for the talenarc it for the bitchill for the heatthe wait of this wordso lovely lovelylike a bridei am taking off my veilcan you see me nowcan you hear me betterwhat i am sayingbehind the weight of this meshcan you listena little more closelyshh shhmy vowels my vowsi’m winging iti’m weepingit’s forming a puddlelike that flutter of snowit weighs on melike a crystalized flotillaa celestial heftlike some salt shakeof sensual wisdom
lovely lovely
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“lovely lovely” from HEEHEE by Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo.
Published by Publishing Genius Press on February 9 2027.
Copyright © 2027 by Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo.
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Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo is the author of the poetry collection Heehee, forthcoming from Publishing Genius, and the chapbooks Boring Eclipse (The Year, 2026) and DUH (Bullshit Lit, 2022). Her fiction and poetry appear in The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Joyland, and The Cleveland Review of Books, among others. She can be followed @tall.spy on Instagram, but she can never be caught.
Heehee tracks the life of a woman in her twenties as she walks around her neighborhood, writes communications for a business school, and hangs out on the internet. With deadpan observations, sharp wit, and a complete disregard of all the rules, Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo’s first book explores the trickiness of this time: consequential but unsettled and slightly ridiculous.
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