Chelsea Tadeyeske 

how does a mind ‘wander’, how does a bone ‘bend’? i’d like to be immortalized by my hoofprint. love is dead after you’ve fucked too many times to remember each of them individually. eating is more enjoyable after you skip a meal. how do you measure time? i’ve never been celibate, just lazy. you can’t eat when you’re asleep. i don’t know who to thank for that. i don’t think i ever wanted to be a child, but i miss it. the beauty of a bare field. the beauty of a whale exploding.

a bird swallows a starfish as if to choke itself. you spit in my mouth. the tallest tree in the world might be a redwood in california. in LA, you rarely see clouds. in indiana, there is no sea. the way people pose when you tell them to look natural. if there’s a lie you have to keep telling, it will become like a child to you. the trashcan is full. the area around the trashcan is also full.

Chelsea Tadeyeske lives in Milwaukee, WI where she co-edits pitymilk press and curates poetry readings in her apartment, The Bell Tower. She is the author of several chapbooks including If You Bend It Backwards Nothing Really Happens (Rabbit Catastrophe Press, 2017), Princess Diana (Bathmatics, 2019), and The Floor of a Cage Floating Above the Floor of a House (Bathmatics, 2020). In the spring of 2022, she completed a month-long artist residency at Gamlí Skolí on Hrísey Island, Iceland, where she finished two poetry projects, What If Loving You Wasn’t About Me? (w/ Edie Roberts, Bathmatics, 2022), and Island Weather (pitymilk press, 2023). She is a Virgo sun, Libra rising and Aquarius Moon born in the year of the snake.