Now and at the Hour of Our Death

a death gunsaku by Joshua Gage

nunnery catacombs

an albino boa constrictor

ringed with candles

séance

twitching on its pillow

the severed tongue

candlelight

from the crimson sconce

skinned cadaver

Joshua Gage is an ornery curmudgeon from Cleveland, Ohio. He is a graduate of the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Naropa University. He has a penchant for Pendleton shirts, Ethiopian coffee, and any poem strong enough to yank the breath out of his lungs.