“When I’d pictured you (yes, I pictured you / and me with you), it was dead-on: / you wear the expected eyes of exhaustion,”
Read Morethe needle skips, you pour more salt. i’m not fucking listening, / i promise. throw scripture into static—rip
Read Moreto be filled up / and begging for more / (when the womb is dying) / all expectant and graped / and waiting.
Read MoreMy identity isn’t something I’m ashamed about. Being bisexual is part of who I am. And I’ve been comfortable with who I am for quite a while now, despite all the messy feelings and questioning as I came to know myself.
Read More"He looks for this, / an unnatural flower, / as a sign from his god, / that he’s been forgiven"
Read More“but of course / that’s all we do on the / aihland / drink lukewarm rum out of coconuts / that I suction onto my breasts / to let you rip off / & drink / the liquor sweating, glowing”
Read Morei don't choose / who to love, don't have anyone
i don't love. love is not love / without self
Read More“There’s been requests for weddings in that room / but I’m not sure about hosting a party I can’t technically attend / and how would I explain the music playing every time I opened my mouth?”
Read More“My story begins this way: I slept with a married man & his jealous witch-wife / that green-eyed bitch / spat her hex at me—”
Read More“I shift in my bones and become a new god.“
Read More“I am ghostly whisper / and werewolf’s curse, / a full moon rise seduction / and a candy apple burst.”
Read More"Bitches, / let us gather. / howl at the moon, / to our mother of all things / large and small."
Read More“He was there. / In the cold metal of the broken door frame, / in the dying heat of the laughter in the room— / The dewy grass of the backyard, / the heat of her velvety scream.”
Read More“turn out the lights. / burn a few candles, say the words / (try to) conjure me up, darling / concentrate on my essence in the smoke, / because we’re all ghosts tonight.”
Read Morepoem by Lauren Becca
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