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Ayla-Monic
Monster bones in a human skin
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The Feeling
Ayla-Monic
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The feeling where your heart is being squeezed. / The feeling where your heart is pressing against the confines of your rib cage. / The feeling…
A Warm Fire, but Make it Feelings
Ayla-Monic
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It snowed again today, / left the earth encrusted and my body shivering. / It’s cold in here, and I think about // bundling up, / heading out,…
Needs
Ayla-Monic
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I am small and endless and I ache to reach past the barriers of my body and feel the depths of the vibrations of my being and as my seams…
Haunted Houses
Ayla-Monic
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The bright flesh of an autumn squash,baked until soft. Pierced with a fork;you know it is just right when the metalsinks in with no resistance. /…
Boob Mythology
Ayla-Monic
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166 views
Do your push-ups and your breasts will remain / Perky, with tight elastic skin holding / Fast against gravity. Also: refrain / From removing…
Witness
Ayla-Monic
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We are witnessing a future unfolding: / hearts, such elastic creatures, / awakening to their intrinsic worth, / to the value pumping through them /…
Cardiac Arrest
Ayla-Monic
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Squeeze. / Breathe deep. / Release. / Breathe deep. / Five delicate fingersWrapped around that organ: / Squeeze. / There’s so much blood,And it’s…
Marrow
Ayla-Monic
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All of the skeletons in my closet have shame for bones. / Their teeth fill their mouths like the bile / of a memory that will not bury itself…
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From Poems for the Burning West
Dena Rash Guzman
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“Like the Mom in The Road?” // fire woods fire brush fire towns / fire summer fire fall fire spring fire winter / suck breath / drought heat…
Witch Bitches
Shannon Barber
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My bitches Run a man madLikeWe got a secret languageSigils writIn eyebrows done upMasterful like frames for wise eyesEyeliner done up / Stabby…
I Ain’t Know
Shannon Barber
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141 views
I ain’t know sweetness / I remember / Honey hips / Salty lips / Body made delicious / With worship / And delight / With themselves / Skin like /…
The Writer. Age 43.
Shannon Barber
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Can’t drop it low no mo.Booty don’t clapHormones actin a fool.My body singsSad songsWith painAndNew inability. And.....I ain’t tryin’ to hear…
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