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4 Poems by Jeremy Mifsud

Updated: Mar 28, 2019


Love Poem

I love the tingling

warmth that lingers

in my mouth after

I bite your crust.


If I could breathe

food, you’d be

the oxygen that

my lungs crave.


I long for you

on those days when

my lips don’t brush

against your skin


but the withdrawal

from your taste

is what makes

you and me special.



Situationship

Phone rings.


I jet into the shower

& leave home with

a sweet-scent of nightshade.


My sunburnt skin

soaks in car smog

and summer sweat.


I arrive late to my lover’s,

my body’s worn out,

so all we do is cuddle.



Plutonic Friends

My phone spies on me.

She autocorrected

‘platonic’ to ‘plutonic’.


Plutonic friendships:

ones that degrade in status

as truth is unravelled

by the hands of time.


Plutonic friends:

spawns from hell,

made from igneous rocks,

ready to smoulder me

at any given chance.


My phone knows all too well,

I’ve been doused in oil &; ignited

by those I once called friends.



Fish Gods

A severed head floats

in saline water, terror

tattooed in its eyes.


Fish nibble flesh,

chew on seaweed hair,

fly into gaping mouth

&; flop on rotting tongue.


The fish gods have

blessed the school

with human meat.




Jeremy Mifsud is a queer and autistic poet from Malta. Social ineptitude becomes a catalyst for his art as he weaves unsaid words into poems and stories. He is the author of the poetry collectionWelcome to the Sombre Days (2018). More of his works appear or are forthcoming in Please Hear What I'm Not Saying (2018), Terse, Little Lion Literary, Constellate Magazine, and more. You can find Jeremy on his website or on twitter.

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