Atlantis
Sasha Khalimonova (Concordia University Montreal)
as the city sinks we sit
on the deflating air
mattress and test
our teeth for cavities.
Tongues running over and over
and over I ask
if you can feel any?
You open wide
I roll over and peer inside you
all dark, just full of breath
and steam. You’re good, I say
and watch you shut your mouth
then wipe it with a sleeve.
We nearly feel the floor now,
the air escaping beneath us like
gas clouding out from a car
Idling.
Sasha Khalimonova is a Montreal artist working across film, words, and music. Her zines can be found in local shops & her writing has appeared in publications such as The Void, Veg, and Soliloquies. Today she’s completing work on her second album and first book, which centers around language’s entanglement with memory.
