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Apr 8, 20211 min read
Empty - Anna Stolley Persky
When I’ve had enough, I beg for help, so the doctor slices through my abdomen, yanks two putrid-ripe babies through my flayed skin – They...
Apr 5, 20211 min read
The Paper Words - Lydia Landrum
Sometimes I find myself Trying to put words to the sensations I feel inside myself Like when my heart is racing I put my hand Over my...
Apr 3, 20212 min read
What Makes me a Woman - Anna Raymo
I will never love another man as much as you I know what they sing about when they sing about being weak It is weakness brought on by the...
Mar 26, 20211 min read
The Problem of Dido - Sarah Bricault
I have only these hands, the span of my palms in which to hold you ten fingers to cup and cradle your curves trace the lithe stretch of...
Mar 25, 20211 min read
Roosevelt Island Revisited - Losey Pezzullo
On the promenade Cherry blossom petals litter the ground, Various shades of bruised, decaying pink, Others float in the air, The new neon...
Mar 21, 20211 min read
Morning - Bett Willett
Gravity is formidable. Apples fall, roll and stop. Deer and squirrels have no clue about Newton’s first law but are thrilled all the...
Mar 20, 20212 min read
3 Fantasies about my Mother - Emma Goldman-Sherman
1. I tell my mother the truth she looks me in the eye with hers soft, tearful. My mother sees me through a haze of what I imagine is love...
Mar 19, 20211 min read
His room was bare - Elizabeth (Betty) Blue
His room was bare. Stark white walls, an old-fashioned simple dresser, a bed. My favorite part was his closet. Carefully hung dress...
Mar 18, 20212 min read
Benches - Alexandra Luciani
We began and ended with city benches, One in the heat of summer, where jackets took up space in forgotten about closets. It was easy and...
Mar 17, 20212 min read
You Rinse Me off & Morning Spills - Penda Smith
into my small studio. you scan the room. you make sure you haven’t forgotten anything: key, wallet, phone you shyly discard the condom...
Mar 13, 20211 min read
12 PM - China Rain
The truth is I’m so lonely, And the bells on the church ring Like a telephone, And I walk the tin can wire between days, And smell the...
Mar 8, 20211 min read
Persephone - Avleen Masawan
You carved my body from soil with a knife but the earth, she doesn’t forget who she’s home to Swords and dismemberment sing in my blood...
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