CJ Peradilla

CJ Peradilla writes for a living. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in petrichor, Otoliths, and the DANAS anthology.

  • EVERY BODY

    Everybody knows a lungful of water  makes a body sink. Everybody knows    a clenched fist makes a perfect weapon  to bruise & bruise &    bruise a body until it yields until it doesn’t. Science works this way, see,    and violence, too, of course—but everybody  knows this. There is nothing left to bury…