HONEYCUTT, Erin
Dear Enheduanna,

Sex is beautiful words,
because i can tell you
and you can tell me,
and i can ask you,
and you can ask me,
and you can say no, and say yes,
and I can wear a dress.

Part prayer, part performance, part poetic treatise, Dear Enheduanna writes out to the high priestess and first known author then swallows whole the epistolary form. Pulp decay as publishing tactic. These are conjuring poems; poems coming after collaboration—entanglement as conceit, as kink, as communion pleasure tactic. Smuggle in a sexy mirror, smuggle in a double-headed dildo, smuggle in a sentence then feel it read back: the author is reader is author is reader. [publishers' note]

“Dear Enheduanna is an erotic romp through language and lesbian history. Erin Honeycutt elegantly weaves together what it means to have a sexual body, a body encased in history. What are the limits of expressing desire? Can the orgasm become language? Complex and fun, these poems spill over and out of the mouth.”
—LA Warman 

Published by Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025
Queer Culture / Poetry