Selected Works, Koss

 

Black and White and Red, a Thing for Emily Dickinson

In Australia, Magpies spurn their monochrome.

With sonar-red eyes lit, they pick their victims.

Pedestrians, take care, don’t be joyful or too swift;

Bicyclists beware of where you pedal.

A white beak might reap a trophy eye

as Emily’s hope streaks laughing ‘cross the sky.

Wuthering Heights Pieces

Doppleganger

Hare & Magpie

Indecision

Magpie & Bag 

Hare

Koss (they/them/she) is a queer writer and artist with an MFA from SAIC. They have work in or forthcoming in Diode Poetry, Five Points, Hobart, Cincinnati Review, Lunch Ticket, Gone Lawn, Scissors and Spackle, Bending Genres, Anti-Heroin Chic, Prelude, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Chiron Review, North Dakota Quarterly, South Florida Poetry Journal, Spillway, San Pedro River Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Rogue Agent, Rat’s Ass Review, Boats Against the Current, Alien Buddha, Westchester Review, Kissing Dynamite, Schuylkill Valley, Amethyst Review, and many others. They were also included in Best Small Fictions 2020 and won the 2021 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Award. Koss received BOTN nominations in 2021 for fiction (Bending Genres) and poetry (Kissing Dynamite). Keep up with Koss on Twitter @Koss51209969 and Instagram @koss_singular. Website: koss-works.com