Forrest Rapier has poetry and prose forthcoming in 2River and LIT Magazine. His debut collection, As the Den Burns, was published by Texas Review Press in 2022. Recently, he received the Dean’s Award for Doctoral Excellence at Florida State University and he is a finalist for the 2026 Apogee Poetry Chapbook Award. Read his work in The Swannanoa Review and Watershed Review.
We were vampiric in our upside-down Cave love; her blood’s gross. I want her to drag me Around town like a torn cape. When I say her name, I slay her name Until my body-lights Go out. I say her name until her name Is all I have inside my head And I am totally not tempted To deep-search the… Read more →
At the waterfall, I jump in and I trustWhoever jumps with me; we just work.If I dared you to do it, would you? Do I jamb the door to your heart room? I am a Time Lord or a lyric dunce;You are my worst and final judge. Your donkMakes me thirstier than the thirstiest horse On the ranch. Feed me… Read more →