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Jul 24, 20211 min read
sounds from the apartment - Taylor May Passow
tremors from the street knock at the window’s glass seep in through some cracks in the walls and when I put my hand on the floor I feel...
Jul 23, 20211 min read
A 1983 Kind Of Love - Bianca Perez
You whisper mi chiquita loca in my untamed ear. Your voice wisps out fresh into the criss -cross of some Texan back road before us,...
Jul 21, 20211 min read
Girls’ Club - Alexandra Ernst
Alexandra Ernst is the 4th place prize winner of the Spring 2021 Sad Girls Club Poetry Contest Amidst Barbies with ridiculous snarls, a...
Jul 21, 20211 min read
I’ll Shave My Head Purple - K. Bron Johnson
I’ll shave my head purple We’ll see how it goes again Tomorrow I start over I see you in the darkness The breath of a child After the...
Jul 20, 20211 min read
Gleeful Rejection of Object Permanence - Olivia Pierce
Olivia Pierce is the 4th place prize winner of the Spring 2021 Sad Girls Club Poetry Contest Of the boarding process and its reliably...
Jul 20, 20211 min read
The lightness in my head is the voice of a flickering candle - Jacqueline Schaalje
The boredom grew monstrous, made fun of my emptiness, looked me in the eye, "Who are you when you don’t work?" The endlessness, bringing...
Jul 19, 20211 min read
My Mother’s Mouth - D.I.E. McKinley
D.I.E. McKinley is the 3rd place prize winner of the Spring 2021 Sad Girls Club Poetry Contest I see my mother in my mouth The way it...
Jul 19, 20211 min read
Self Reflections - India Hopper
The knife moves from heel To knee to thigh A slim AK47 A pencil with a blade Curved in circles and swirls Up my soft legs I drink in the...
Jul 19, 20211 min read
Self Reflections - India Hopper
The knife moves from heel To knee to thigh A slim AK47 A pencil with a blade Curved in circles and swirls Up my soft legs I drink in the...
Jul 18, 20212 min read
Cassandra - Sarah Cook
Sarah Cook is the 2nd place prize winner of the Spring 2021 Sad Girls Club Poetry Contest I am aiming my bow and arrow at the thing I...
Jul 18, 20211 min read
when i was 19 - Marilynn Eguchi
when i was 19 i made a cave under the stairs at the bottom of a well i had fallen in. dark and lit like green sea glass. i had left my...
Jul 17, 20211 min read
‘The Body (in theory)’ - Kelsey Smoot
Kelsey Smoot is the 1st place prize winner of the Spring 2021 Sad Girls Club Poetry Contest It’s taken me over twenty years to embrace...
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