| WFR POETRY |

| WFR POETRY |

still hate the sun

by Chelsea Tadeyeske

i wish i had the type of tenacity

that absorbs a twin in the womb

i keep saying i can’t imagine how you feel

as in you horrify me

love is more like a pill on the bathroom floor

not the need to serve a greater good

but i would totally spend the 50 years

i’m fully awake emptying and filling

this haunted lake with you

oh, no thanks

i’m not drinking right now

just weed

back of my heart like

the back of the moon

Chelsea Tadeyeske lives and plays in Milwaukee, WI where she co-edits Pitymilk Press. She’s authored several chapbooks including If You Bend It Backwards Nothing Really Happens (Rabbit Catastrophe Press, 2017) and Princess Diana (Bathmatics, 2019). Recently she completed a month-long artist residency at Gamlí Skolí on Hrísey Island, Iceland, where she finished two poetry projects, What If Loving You Wasn’t About Me? (w/ Edie Roberts, Bathmatics, 2022), and Island Weather. She is a Virgo sun, Libra rising and Aquarius moon born in the year of the snake.