I wake in the night
when you don’t.
You sleep beside a bassaris on a bed of piss
set with figs
and flesh.
I sleep
(when I do)
on lungs.
Jenn Grunigen is a writer and fig omophagist. Her work can be found in Nightmare, Strange Horizons, Shimmer, and elsewhere. She drums for multiple projects, including the folk/black metal band Felled. Their album The Intimate Earth is out now on Transcending Obscurity Records and can be listened to here, or wherever you like to get your music from. When she isn’t scribbling or hitting things with sticks, she hunts truffles with her dog, Vixa. Jenn is on Instagram and Twitter @foxnettle.
