Cassie Fielding is a poet with a kink for the surreal. Three collections of poems claim her as the sole author with a further experimental collection composed entirely of automatic writing created in collaboration with two other female poets. Her poetry has also been published in a variety of journals. As a scholar of Jungian Studies, Cassie is currently researching the alchemical nature of surrealist poetry writing as rooted in experiments with chance and has presented at several conferences on the transformative power of surrealist practice. 

If I could slice these sunken teeth 
from the sinew of my ribs, 
I would thread you a garland 

                 to lay at your feet. 

                         Balance a bowl of fire on the bridge of my belly 

for you to quench your unbridled tongue. 
The underside of my forehead is a canvas—
draw your name across it with smudge

                                  in circles that dizzy the heels of my ears,
in orbits around my folded-up voice.

My obsession is in crossed ankles.
Levitation.
Compressed temples.

                                              My tongue on loop.

Wrap me in black and let me wear you on the outside.                  

  Your shadow.
My new skin.