You trip into my tongue /

I want to keep you there forever /

Speak for me /

Fill me with your balladry /

Your saliva will grow fresh fruit /

Under my stuttering gum /

Anastasia Jill is a queer writer living in the South. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and Best Small Fiction Anthology and has been featured with Poets.org, Lunch Ticket, FIVE:2:ONE, apt, Anomaly Literary Journal, 2River, Gertrude Press, Minola Review, and more.