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“Take me back to her tomato-faced shriek”

Mar 2, 2024 · by Editor

First Place Poet, “Road Not Taken” Contest vernix-smeared kick take me back to the sear of severing my thighs quivering harnessed wide apart like two mountains two ranges two tectonic plates diverging spewing magma take me to her round red gasp blood-streaked rage whisked away to a first feast of sugar water in a bottle and not-my-breast but how could I complain my body volcanic my womb a hurricane my brain a wildfire my limbs a flood this was an act of body charged give me that lightning again I’d save the placenta this time an island oasis I grew […]

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