Queer Pank

I guest edited the October issue of Pank to feature Queer poetry and prose.

"Patroclus, in the plain and sad way he will become famous for, says that he’ll fuck her if she fucks him first. She is a little surprised; she hasn’t ever really imagined doing that to Chiron. But Patroclus is already on his back, lifting both of his knees, two fingers in his asshole. It’s all right, he says. I’ve done it a few times before, it won’t hurt me too much. She says, How do I. Patroclus says, Spit in your hand and make your thingy all wet, then put it inside me, here. She has barely entered him when she already starts coming. Patroclus bursts into laughter beneath her. Even his laughter is plain and sad. He is wincing. She is already imagining arrows in suggestive body parts, drowning, pornographic sketches, obsessive dreams, forest stalking. Patroclus asks, What, is this your first time? Or just your first time with a boy? Her come leaking out of his asshole, making its own shapes on the ground. Fragrance of dead leaves, seaweed. She says, What’s a boy."

--from "Graphy, or The Girlhood of Achilles," by Elaine Castillo.

Said Blake Butler on my facebook wall:

"The Pank Queer issue is mega excellent...Reading through piece by piece is delicious."

Read the radness: Pank: The Queer Issue.