Nicole Adabunu Nicole Adabunu is a Chicago-based poet. Her work has been published by Writer’s Digest, the Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. She is an MFA graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow.

carrion | Poetry

Nicole Adabunu

the dead deer we saw on the way to your place, brain knitted wet outside its chest, once lighthouse twice blooded, pulse instinct. a body shot out of its head quarters. every car’s a fan tonight, slowing to watch a heartbeat unheat itself. who do we rot back to? steel aluminum stare, ants crawling the iced unblinking. the radio’s playing a song about getting undressed. wanting someone down to the...