Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

Samael

By Scherezade Siobhan

His: the tree that won’t shoulder the noose 
His: Celan cusped in the precipice’s phalange
His: a herbarium pickled in scum and flu 
His: a couture of surgical gowns 
His: black plague Barcelona 

The limbs of postlude; the limbs of Japanese
honeysuckle. His: viral nurseries. Taproots 
flattened to carcasses of bamboo beetles

His: the shaved head of an Indian moonstone
His: the empty fist of a Faberge egg
His: the knuckle that knots disease with desire 

Scherezade Siobhan is a psychologist, writer and the maker of world's finest Spanish omelettes. Her first poetry collection Bone Tongue was published by Thought Catalog Books in 2015. She can be found squeeing about small furry animals, football (the proper kind) & neuroscience at viperslang or @zaharaesque