A sapping. Endings devour me like needle-mouthed mosquitoes, friends turned lovers for no reason other than proximity: that blood suck of libido that drains a gully of regret into the pocked skin of collarbones. Infected are all the bug bites I slap, little craters and scars the sun spills its guts on, freckling me with […]
Alyx Chandler
Alyx Chandler (she/her) is a poet from the South who now lives in Chicago. She received her MFA in Poetry at the University of Montana, where she was a Richard Hugo Fellow and taught poetry. In 2025, she won the Three Sisters Award in Poetry with Nelle Literary Journal. Her poetry can be found in the Southern Poetry Anthology, EPOCH, Greensboro Review, and elsewhere at alyxchandler.com. Follow her on Instagram @alyxabc.