Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Too Hot are now published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, October 25th between 3 and 4:30 pm PST.

Friday, October 17, 2025

Tammy Smith

Becoming (You)


I become your next thought

as it emerges—every idea

nothing but consciousness

calling itself cool.

Proper.

Pompous.

Hard.


Sometimes, cruel

to witness something so quirky,

sick and sharp—your soul

turning hard questions over,

watching them fall in spasms,

rhythmic as breath, as rain—

the liquid form words take

when we start to storm.


The relentlessness of too much release.


Greed, that hot rush of bile

at the back of my throat,

the smell of rotten hunger rising,

every temptation burning

before the deepest part of your shadow

swallows me whole.


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