love is becoming a safe word one i use precisely when the risk is greater than my courage and i mean slow down with me and i mean take my […]
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letting a baby go
there is more blood than i can comprehend my mind is full of the idea of the blood and in the weeks after i say more about this abundant blood […]
a pleasure activist at the dentist
dear hot dentist your fingers in my mou- dear hot dentist we are so different i learn from experience you? years and money poured into school so you could tilt […]
softer on the bones
no one told me the skin of my lovers would be softer with time age loosening flesh from bone and I would seek this instead of firm fruit the movement […]
the delicious
the delicious shifts as i become adult it was the black of vibrant womb it was running downhill with no fear of injury it was curse words sharp off my […]
the future of children
before She spoke She dashed a hand into the water and pulled out a fish shining with rainbows, limp and stunned by Her touch. She flicked it whole into Her […]
healing my knees one meaning at a time
turn the whole body to face the future line up the ligaments, the gut, the heart anything turned backwards will snap and shimmer and suffer the meniscus is shaped like […]
from earth to obsidian (28/30)
prompt: write a poem about bridges. A bridge is a powerful metaphor, and when you start looking for bridges in poems, you find them everywhere. Your poem could be about […]
24-27/30, poems
catching up on poems. home to e— 24/30 going off prompt to share queen aya’s first love poem of her second affair with e— in the end coming home was […]
two of keys (23/30)
prompt: take a chance, literally. Find a deck of cards (I used thecollective tarot), shuffle it, and take a card – any card! Make a poem from it. … from […]