Member since August 16, 2012 | 12,341 Readings |

Shannon Barber

I'm a writer from Seattle. I like to read lovely words. Also hello.

Recent Work

Corpus: 1

Shannon Barber

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Mine was the body / The victim / The evil / Of being / Of thighs / That rub / That jiggle / That hide the / Evilest / Eye. / Theirs / …

Junkie

Shannon Barber

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I Jones like / I'm dope sick / Sweating / Shitting / Like / Nothing is really / Cause I can't get right / Cause ain't / …

On My 41st Birthday

Shannon Barber

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I am tired / Of / A body / That don't give a shit / Literally / If I got things to do. / And this brain that / Sometimes / Sometimes…

Secrets

Shannon Barber

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I want to know you / The way / I know the secrets / Inside my own mouth. / I want to know you / The way / I know the ache / In my chest / …

How Black

Shannon Barber

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How Black can you be? / The question was serious / Posed from the superior position / Of normalcy / But who cares? / Right? / Skin color…

Dear Whiteness

Shannon Barber

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I want to say / Officially / I won't be / Assimilating / To the degree / Recommended / To survive. / I regret / To inform / …

Thematically Black

Shannon Barber

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I am / Thematically Black. / I know. / I'll give you a minute. / You okay? / I know / I am / Thematically Black / Like / Hot sweet…

How to Kiss

Shannon Barber

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I want to show you / How to be kissed / By light / Greedy for / Brown skin / And how to feel / Blood sing / Like a chorus / Of ghosts / …

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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,…

Freeform Affidavit

Jess Burnquist

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I will never regret the secrets I have kept. // Sometimes, though, they escape as a hiss. / // / The secrets I have kept belong to him as…

blood in the water

W.M. Butler

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i shrug off rust there is lust in my blood stream sweet marrow these narrow tomorrows relentless on my joints my figurative speech beaches whales…

space pours wisdom into my brassiere

Dena Rash Guzman

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Space pours wisdom into my brassiere / // into flesh, ears, onto my face, that pretty thing. / I’m full of space. I don’t live in time. / I…

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