give me a spoon, shallow bowl of tarnished silver, ornate handle left over from your grandmother’s youth. a grapefruit spoon, its tiny serrated edge made to cut through tender skin and unholy flesh.
give me a spoon and I will dig a tunnel to china, starting with my body, carving deeper and deeper and into my gut, under my ribs, serving up my entrails, one small scoop at a time.
Brittany Davis (She/They) is a lesbian, transfemme poet and fiction writer operating out of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She is currently working towards her MA in Writing, with plans to pursue an MFA after graduation. Her work has previously appeared in Beyond Queer Words, Grimsy, Basilinda, the Petigru Review, Cerasus, TEMPO, Archarios, and her self-published zine, The Rage. Her short story, "Viper," was also named a finalist for the 2023 Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. When not writing about horrible monsters or lesbians kissing, Brittany enjoys sudoku, Dungeons & Dragons, and spending too much money on trading card games.
