Adam Fieled (Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, USA): "Emily's Voodoo"
Emily’s voodoo: an invocation of lascivious
lawlessness, a garden of secret green. From my
second-floor sublet on West Nittany Avenue,
I’m sure she looked out at autumn State College
with a mystical sense that her spell was being cast:
hydrochloride pot, cigarettes, and the rest that was
her, splayed out in a posture that, somewhere, she
had already mastered. The spell was against all
the run-in-circles crew, “sororisluts,” footballers,
frat-packs, the anti-human, anti-humane. What
sutured our skin together ripped them to shreds
in Emily’s mind, cast out from my black mattress.
In State College, the playbook of human savagery
against raw reality was ornery, but could be contravened.
© Adam Fieled 2017-2026
Emily's Voodoo was originally published as Voodoo in Otoliths 47 in 2017.
lawlessness, a garden of secret green. From my
second-floor sublet on West Nittany Avenue,
I’m sure she looked out at autumn State College
with a mystical sense that her spell was being cast:
hydrochloride pot, cigarettes, and the rest that was
her, splayed out in a posture that, somewhere, she
had already mastered. The spell was against all
the run-in-circles crew, “sororisluts,” footballers,
frat-packs, the anti-human, anti-humane. What
sutured our skin together ripped them to shreds
in Emily’s mind, cast out from my black mattress.
In State College, the playbook of human savagery
against raw reality was ornery, but could be contravened.
© Adam Fieled 2017-2026
Emily's Voodoo was originally published as Voodoo in Otoliths 47 in 2017.
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