VESICAPISCIS Karah Kemmerly is a queer

Karah Kemmerly is a queer poet and fiber artist who grew up in the California Central Valley and completed her MFA at Oregon State University

soft-boiled charisma

Poetry / Essay

Every word / phrase / sentence is susceptible to mutation

Having already transitioned and monitoring the size of one's "titties"–so that rather than solutions

VESICAPISCIS Karah Kemmerly is a queerPoetry Essay. CLOAK, 2024. Paperback, 48 pages. 7"x5"x0. 14" From the press: Vesicapiscis details a poetics of self reflection self projection. What cannot be defined is pulled into the body, examined, dissected, regurgitated. Its form is prodded and rearranged. Every word phrase sentence is susceptible to mutation. And these mutations inevitably proliferate onto the speaker's tongues, their throat, deep into their nervous system. Language is a virus,