From the OWC CommunityFeaturing the best female poets we can find!
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FEATURING
MELANIE BROWNE
Just the way she likes it
He makes toast
just the way she likes it,
drizzled with butter
and cut perfectly in half,
a magician’s morbid trick
She dreams about a tiger
that scorches his tongue
the tiger moans and
she wakes,
screaming.
He holds her head
against his chest
the way she likes it
Makes love to her
in darkness, their bodies
a chorus of
wild barley weeds
wailing away...
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Featuring
MELISSA HANSEN
the sneaky baby
she had
always
been
sneaky
always
sneaking
around
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Hanks Room
He lived in a room so small
the simple act of breathing touched everything he owned.
Some days he would shuffle to the park
to eavesdrop on conversations
to warm his face in the sun
and watch pigeons decorate statues.
As age climbed geriatrically upon him
he stopped leaving his room.
Evenings, he would sit
under a lamp with no shade
and drink...
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p.s. don’t let me get what I want
blind tightrope walker seeks cartographer
chiromancer or catalytic converter
for mutual mental masturbation
interrogation skills a must
let no words be safe
your hands: 12 string enormous
your hands: wrap stars on a wand like spun sugar
your hands: never fumble for the key
me: self-loathing narcissist, side-swipe dreamer
kiss me backwards make me forget which...
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