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“Violent Green Synthesis,” Velvet Pipe Tobacco,” & “Vehemently Voracious”Picture Show Press: V: An Anthology of Poetry (2019) Velvet, vixen, villain, vinyl, veil … This powerful anthology contains poems that primarily explore naming, love, #metoo, wordplay, and nostalgia.
Muscles of Mastication
ganglion cysts form in my jaw as my molars clench together rugged concrete on asphalt a popping in my right ear an auditory acknowledgement of the human mask
Shivering in Malfunction
The frustration of living in constant pain to the point of temporary paralysis (oh trust me! Old lefty has crapped out on me quite a few times) while your entire buddy is spasming and cramping as you are desperately on the internet looking for any masseuse or physical therapist that is open or SHIT! evenContinue reading “Shivering in Malfunction”
I Need …
I need writing because if I stop, my inner child dies. If I stop, I kill my god. If I stop, there is no place for me. If I stop, I will forget to love. If I stop, I will forego forgiveness. If I stop, voices are silenced. If I stop, my sister bruises. IfContinue reading “I Need …”
The Woman in the Wall
There was a strange woman who lived in our walls. She was gloomy and dreary and not very tall. When I told my mother about the woman in the wall, she gasped and shrieked because there was no woman at all.
On Unlearning Education
I am well-educated and severely unlearned. Assimilated with ideas deemed worthless compared to curriculum. You don’t have to be educated to be learned but when you are confined by four walls you have to unlearn to be educated.
Privilege of the Assimilated
Exoticism masquerades itself in a compliment And I am just another colonial conquest My vagina is their Manifest Destiny Assimilation is the castration of culture Going home is not a possibility You diasporic dysfunction Sexually repressed and socially excluded Am I just another notch on the Belt of fetishized categories
8TPH9
We memorize Wi-Fi passwords like our parents memorized phone numbers 8TPH9 4G4ZSK9XH62HVDVX 21163982 181BEB50A346 SSXI 4246303583 9513021471
Time Touched Lover
Lulled shivers of post-coitus sighs from fur quake exhaling soft rings. Cellulite stretches and a mole marked majora wrinkled smiles of a stretched perineum and receding scrotum curling behind terse grey hairs. My time touched lover, we are orgasms in stillness.
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