Ekphrastic after Wounded Eurydice, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
drink wine with me in the bathroom
red stains coating sweet lips
tonight,
i’m drunk on you
intoxicating highs
spinning the room
like a runaway disco ball
and
this bathtub is big enough
for two bodies
tangle me in your vines and
make me forget the pain
that comes with sobriety
we’ll submerge ourselves
till the sun makes tile sparkle
i won’t remember a thing
except these soft purple
bruises
that pepper my skin
and taste like your touch
Based in Wisconsin, Alyssa Hannam was the first to receive an Excellency in Playwriting award from her alma mater, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay. Her play, The Gates, has been featured in One Egg No Batter Production’s Virtual Unfinished Works Festival and was read on the podcast Unstaged. She is the main writer of the Chaotic Myth Retellings series for the MD Virtual Ensemble Company. In addition to playwriting, she has published multiple journalistic pieces with The Borgen Project and co-hosts and manages social media for the Tea & Squee podcast.