cowboy, by kaitlin venneman

Poetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

in cowboy, neon signs in the desert are the harbingers of gloom, fingertips a silent hymn. here, certain facets of americana are absorbed and turned back out as a landscape of queerness. freddy krueger, travis bickle, and robyn dance into scenes of liminal desire and gory daydreams. 

through exterior forms, the body is made invisible, yet another mark in the pavement that goes unseen by all but the minute. despite its harrowing compulsions, cowboy is a love letter to the ominous spaces, eternal cravings, and desert oddities of the author’s birthplace of nevada—however warped that love may be.

kaitlin venneman is a cowboy poet & creative body risen from the strange nevada desert. she now resides in brooklyn, where she contemplates stars, cinema, & queer facets of americana.