Rae Stone

Foreign Object Detected

This womb
fights my body
to shed more blood.
Cause more pain.
Take up space
where it isn’t wanted.

Rae Stone, Foreign Object Detected

Sarosh Nandwani

tactile familiarity

the way my lover scoops me up
how he brings himself close, melts into me

Sarosh Nandwani, tactile familiarity

Ami J. Sanghvi

Demonic Homecoming Dance

for i am still ongoing the

portal that is this poem is still open I can feel it in my BONES my soul

Ami J. Sanghvi, Demonic Homecoming Dance

MP Armstrong

automated menu hymn

if you know your party’s extension you may enter it at any time

(like you’d enter a river)
(like you’d enter a mouth)
(like you’d exit

remember?)

MP Armstrong, automated menu hymn

Clair Dunlap

Mapping a Galaxy

the map of my
self is a simple thing, overwhelmed by a mind
set on its patterns

Clair Dunlap, Mapping a Galaxy

JP Seabright

Body of Work

This body of work, my body at work, is a constant fluxing, fucking movable feast. I hunger for the taste of my own flesh, the meager meat on my bones.

JP Seabright, Body of Work

Astrid Bridgwood

Live Burial

God loved me once, I’m halfway to sure
He had to. Loved a body still-born,
I was Other once - blest I’m halfway to sure.

Astrid Bridgwood, Live Burial

The Maenad

Princess Gwen, Shameless Fat Cow of the Fat Rat Patrol

Moo. Stare at me whatever. I’d like to see you do better.
It’s something else, the thing
That you can’t conceive is that I love being me.

The Maenad, Princess Gwen, Shameless Fat Cow of the Fat Rat Patrol

Clem Flowers

Jellied Tomato Refresher

I remember reaching out for a hand to hold me up
and there was nothing and I spent years after feeling like I always needed
to apologize.

Clem Flowers, Jellied Tomato Refresher

Sloane Angelou

Letter to my grandmother

you taught me a lot of things
nnem, like my body is a temple.
But, you forgot to tell me who will
build it.

Sloane Angelou, Letter to my grandmother

Andre Peltier

She Showed Me Her Scars

“touch the cuts,”
she whispers.
”Run your fingers over the scars.”

Andre Peltier, She Showed Me Her Scars

Ellen Clayton & Cara Ianuale

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Once the small talk is done we settle
into our closeness and the
truth begins to
spill

Ellen Clayton, Hysterical Women

Lynn Finger

The Year I Stopped Eating

I was a banquet,
a bounty, the jutted ribs a toy &
collar bone a yoke, Picasso cheek bones
angular, the best disappearance I knew.

Lynn Finger, The Year I Stopped Eating

Ona Woods

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Ona Woods,