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Wounds in Messiah Sandals

Wounds in Messiah Sandals

I asked if you kept the old habits. You smiled without teeth and said, “the best place to hide track marks is between your toes.” You wear your wounds so plain in your messiah sandals.

PoetryE3 May 2019drug addiction, heroin, sobrietyComment

Fibers

Fibers

Now, as I am one year and seven months from thirty, I understand the infinity of growing old. I imagine myself as recycled clay. Formed into this year, grabbed by another and shaped into that one—but where is the kiln? Where is the sun that dries the grapes?

PoetryContributor23 April 2019Boshemia Magazine, poetry, long readComment

Welterweight

Welterweight

I still think about the endocrinologist lifting my shirt to see how my ribs were jutting out of the skin.

PoetryContributor10 April 2019intersex, poetryComment

Crimes of Future Past

Crimes of Future Past

I'm not asking for much. I want to feel human.

This Is How Two Women Have Sex

This Is How Two Women Have Sex

She calls me petulant. Maybe she’s right.

PoetryContributor22 January 2019Emily Blair, how women have sex, poem, queer, sapphic, sexComment

Piercings

Piercings

PoetryContributor17 January 2019Chris Hawkins, Connor Irwin, ear lobe, earrings, love, piercings, sexComment

We Were Not in Love

We Were Not in Love

PoetryContributor27 November 2018bohemian rhapsody, feminism, friendship, Gail Webb, rocket man, zine workshop Comments

Before It Happened

Before It Happened

PoetryContributor10 October 2018Dr Christine Blasey Ford, guest writer: taylor, I believe her, sexual assaultComment

Island Movies

Island Movies

PoetryE11 July 2018depression, mental healthComment

Vestigiality // Poetry by Elisha Pidcock

Vestigiality // Poetry by Elisha Pidcock

PoetryBoshemia Magazine16 June 2018contemporary poetryComment

Dear Spencer Letters // The Poetics of a Love story, Pt. 2

Dear Spencer Letters // The Poetics of a Love story, Pt. 2

PoetryContributor13 February 2018author: anna see-jachowski, dear spencer, love, love letters, poetryComment

Oh, New York and Who We Were There

Oh, New York and Who We Were There

PoetryE3 February 2018Brooklyn, poetry Comment

Dear Spencer Letters // Poetics of a Love Story, Reimagined

Dear Spencer Letters // Poetics of a Love Story, Reimagined

PoetryContributor21 January 2018Anna See-Jachowski, new poetryComment

Notes on Regaining Autonomy: Part III

Notes on Regaining Autonomy: Part III

PoetryContributor2 November 2017autonomy, growth, new poetry, notes on autonomy, personal, progressComment

Cole Sprouse // Instagram as a Medium for Poetry

Cole Sprouse // Instagram as a Medium for Poetry

Poetry, CultureContributor27 September 2017cole sprouse, contemporary poetry, depression, instagram, masculinity, social media, toxic masculinity Comment

Notes on Regaining Autonomy II // Loss and Loneliness

Notes on Regaining Autonomy II // Loss and Loneliness

PoetryContributor15 September 2017autonomy, emotional journey, emotions, grief, healing, loneliness, loss, mental health, narrative, personal, sentimental, solitude Comments

Beyond Words // An Italian Tryst

Beyond Words // An Italian Tryst

Words are only half of how we speak.

PoetryContributor3 September 2017affair, billingual, free verse, guest writer: juliette, italy, language, lovers, Other, otherness, romeComment

Bo-Arts // The Poetry of Jenny Moran

Bo-Arts // The Poetry of Jenny Moran

PoetryContributor5 July 2017contemporary poetry, feminist poetry, irish poetry, jenny moran, nemesisComment

A Letter to America, on Her Birthday

A Letter to America, on Her Birthday

PoetryErin Ammon4 July 2017amber waves of grain, america, america the beautiful, field of grain, fourth of july, guest writer: erin, independence day, letter, myth, myth of the american dream, the american dreamComment

First Steps // Notes on Regaining Autonomy

First Steps // Notes on Regaining Autonomy

PoetryContributor9 May 2017poetry, Elisha Pidcock Comment