The Back Door to Hell by Connor Fisher

The little entrance seemed smaller than a table. * Every day was a birthday. * My sister was a miser. * The floor lived in its leather enclosure. * The floor caved in. * There will be no questions. This Is An Awkward Monster I have made every mistake. * I have accumulated the coldest nausea. * My outstretched hand, its curving fingernail: these are the only objects. They are not flowers. * Their sound is sickening.

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Connor Fisher is the author of the chapbooks The Hinge (Epigraph Magazine, 2018) and Speculative Geography (Greying Ghost Press, forthcoming 2021). He has an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and English from the University of Georgia. His poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Typo, The Colorado Review, Tammy, Posit, Cloud Rodeo, and The Denver Quarterly.