Author: Skylar Miklus

Skylar Miklus serves as Editorial Intern with Electric Literature and Poetry Editor for Barnstorm Journal. They obtained their B.A. in Philosophy from Dartmouth College, and are set to receive their MFA in Poetry from the University of New Hampshire, in 2025. Their writing has appeared in Rogue Agent Journal, Identity Theory, On the Seawall, and elsewhere. They live in Dover, NH, and are working on their first collection, Body Rumors: Poems.

Poetry

Poetry Issue #77

Post author By Skylar Miklus
Post date March 25, 2025

Artwork by Kate Garklavs

By Skylar Milkus Etymology I Between flashbacks I hear echoes of verb bend, from Old English bendan, confine, fetter, how he constrained my body to the corner where cinema wall kissed floor, my knees to carpet grime. Causative from bindan, to bind, as his mouth bound me to service every knot in his build. Proto-Germanic […]