Collage | Harley Claes


Writer’s Commentary

This piece depicts the Sapphic and tumultuous relationship between two women, addressing the feigned consoling and fear of connection due to traumatic ties with men in the past.

Harley Claes is a prose poet, perfume maker, and novelist from Detroit, Michigan. Her work is oftentimes anachronistic, mystical, philosophical and holy erotic. She also happens to run the Beat-inspired press ANGELICAL RAVINGS. Her first self-published
anthology is titled ‘Pity The Poetics’ and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in 30+ literary journals. You can find her at

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