PREORDER FOR PRIDE! Smoldering: poems of desire

Smoldering: poems of desire is a collection of poems on the universal themes of love, desire, and heartbreak. Passionate, yet ethereal, the poems in Smoldering traverse the magical and the feral. Raw eroticism, yearning, intimacy, and desolation are bound together within this collection, a vessel for the mysteries of love and sex. Sweetly queer and queerly sweet, Smoldering will set your heart on fire. Avery Cassell’s poetry has been described as revolutionary, lyrical, and lush.

“The raspberry produces fruit quickly
watered with kisses and moonlit tangles
sweat and sighs
you tease my flesh with berries
squishing each berry with your calloused fingertips
before placing it on my tongue.” – from “Courting”