Poem I'm Afraid to Commit To
Alexus Erin
Kimberly Wildgor
Love is
the virgule
between flight/-less
(affect)(at)ion
And I am
too/tired/tried to bend
down, mold my hands,
know its shape
Alexus Erin is originally from Princeton, New Jersey and is currently living in Manchester, UK. She is a PhD candidate. Her poetry has previously appeared in Potluck Magazine, the Melanin Collective, The Nervous Breakdown, The Audacity (audacityzine.com), and a host of others. Her screenplay, American Lotus Project, won an award at Temple University’s Diamond Film Festival. Erin is the author of Cartoon Logic, Cartoon Violence (Baobab Press 2022), as well as two chapbooks, St. John’s Wort (Animal Heart Press 2019) and Two Birds, All Moon (Gap Riot Press 2019).
Kimberly Wildgor is a multimedia artist located in Los Angeles. She attended Franklin University of Switzerland alongside Alexus Erin and that is where the two became soulmates. Currently, Kimberly is a speech language pathologist for a nonprofit organization serving the pediatric population. In her free time, she makes any and all art that she can. She is an aspiring cowboy whose hobbies include sitting on the couch with her husband and their cat Bubba. You can find Kimberly’s art and exploits on Instagram @okay.seto2.0. She was recently locked out of her old art Instagram account lol.