Chris Campanioni is the author of six books, including A and B and Also Nothing (Unbound Edition, 2023 / Otis Books Seismicity Editions, 2020), a re-writing of Henry James’s The American and Gertrude Stein’s "Americans" that merges theory, fiction, and autobiography. His work has found a home in Ambit, Nat. Brut, American Poetry Review, RHINO Poetry, Adroit Journal, and several other journals and anthologies. He lives in Brooklyn.
I wish for sex out / in the open, to have / some strange body / glide over mine, to collide / as if to butterfly / underwater required not one / but two sets of salty / chests & jutting / calves
