Ryan Downum
Summer 2025 | Poetry
Fraybody Seance
My rabbit eyes sprout
splitted rivers
of grotesque there’s
nothing here
I want conversation grief
I want all that’s dripping
red from fangs sunk into my blabbering
heart’s bloodsphere
A light
lurches &
loops &
lowers until
it's wrung
until it critters
my body rubble my terrible
giggleskull
Ryan Downum is the author of the chapbook I Wear My Face in the Field (Dream Pop Press, 2022). He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Idaho and currently lives in DeKalb, Illinois.