Member since August 16, 2012 | 11,637 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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Hysteria

Dena Rash Guzman

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The husband of the woman stricken protected her with a shield against a real world that isn’t real. A wiltied woman. People wilting everywhere,…

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. /…

rolling over the server

Dena Rash Guzman

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Hearing what they said / hearing I slept / jesus son holy Mary / how could he I pray / parents are side by safety. I can’t enough! / I can’t…

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