CELESTIAL BODY
what I want is a whole galaxy sleek sentences the scape your leaving my tongue a drop white ink your mouth loneliness black birds tapping my breath frosty glass the galaxy to name luscious stars your freckled body
itonda, yildun,
veritate, ankaa,
lerna, belenos,
dziban, mira,
taika, canopus,
flegetonte, vega,
horna, polaris,
sirius, capella
a whole galaxy of sleek sentences sizzling in the airscape goat I’m of your leaving splits open my tongue begging for a drop of white ink fills in your mouth watering loneliness of counting black birds on the windowsill tapping to catch my breath flowers on the frosty glass wearing the galaxy that I kissed to name after luscious stars of your freckled body is what I want
Özge Lena is a poet & writer based in Istanbul and an English language teacher. She has a published novella titled Otopsi (The Autopsy). Her poems have appeared in Ink Sweat & Tears, Green Ink Poetry, Fragmented Voices, Harana, Swim Press, The Phare, and elsewhere, also forthcoming in iamb. Her poetry was shortlisted for the Ralph Angel Poetry Prize 2021 judged by Mary Ruefle and her poem Summerlepsy was shortlisted for The Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition in 2021.
Twitter: @LenaOzge
Instagram: @lenaozge
Flight of the dragonfly 