FRANCESCA KRITIKOS

Pink

You’re brutal in the morning
Neck of a slender dog

Bad things stay bad
The good things turn cold

You don’t clean me up
when you leave

Does pink skin stay pink
under white sheets of snow

Francesca Kritikos is the author of SWEET BLOODY SALTY CLEAN (Feral Dove, 2023) and Exercise in Desire (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2022) as well as the chapbooks In the Bed of Sickness (Pitymilk Press, 2023) and Animals Don't Go To Hell (Bottlecap Press, 2021). Her works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction have been published in English, French and Greek in numerous online and print publications. She also serves as editor in chief of SARKA, a journal and publisher focused on works of the flesh.