- Synonyms for Raw
uncooked, leading to the spread of bacterium (i.e., salmonella, toxoplasmosis, avian influenza) □ uncooked, leading to the spread of knees (i.e., legs, lips, acropolis) □ the pulse that breaks your neck □ the texture of the carrot skinned with the back of a knife □ the egg dropped on the floor lapped up by the family dog □ the statue of a winged child beaten into a new shape by rain □ the inflammation in the throat that follows swallowing □ honey and cocaine □ to take a man how you bard a fowl □ to take a man and make his blood your blood □ to take a man □ the infection that grows eyes opening across your torso □ unrefined sugar □ allergies to latex □ amyl nitrites □ four-letter words (i.e., love, oath, fuck, polish) □ to reach inside another person and find nothing there □ to reach inside another person and find another hand reaching back [End Page 24]
sam sax is a 2015 NEA Creative Writing Fellow and a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, where he’s the associate poetry editor of Bat City Review. He’s the two-time Bay Area Unified Grand Slam Champion and author of the chapbooks A Guide to Undressing Your Monsters (2014) and sad boy / detective (Winner of the Black Lawrence’s 2014 Black River Chapbook Prize). His poems are forthcoming in Boston Review, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter Normal School, Rattle, Salt Hill, and other journals.