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I flip bedsheets inside out
and exclude you from the poem.
@EmilyMitamura
@aaww
https://t.co/vSvVRg2I2j @JihyunYun2nd @lighthousewrite congrats, jihyun!!!!!! how wonderful!! Happening in 5 minutes! See you soon! I hoard myself a swarm.
The ecosystem of my house requires the materiality of my living.
I am as fruitful as I am indebted.
My grandma used to live here.
@EmilyMitamura
@aaww
https://t.co/vSvVRg2I2j @asgharthegrouch Congratulations, Fati❤️❤️❤️ @aeheelee @BullCityPress @shadowscapes @TianaClarkPoet Congratulations, Ae Hee!! Love this book so much!! RSVP at the link below & you can access 2 films documenting the history of sex work for US soldiers stationed in Korea, and attend a panel on...
kaixinguo — happiness fruits.
but they are neither happy nor fruit.
they are birthed out of their shells
i am not happiness nor fruit nor mother;
only carefully extracted
⁦@RenaSuWrites⁩
⁦@aaww⁩ https://t.co/JyEByMx5Cc What if you introduced your husband as your “ex-boyfriend” just to mess with people my mother tows away skin from her
antiquated thumbs, into oars like pistachios.
let me be more raw like my hands, she says.
@RenaSuWrites
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/JyEByMx5Cc @RenaSuWrites @aaww It’s an honor to publish your work!!❤️❤️ @samforbreakfast Sam!! That’s so stressful!! But school hasn’t officially begun yet so you should be able to register / turn things now, after you send some emails of explanation. Especially since you’re a graduate student in a small p...
a reward for killing without using hands.
the rest of us practice by watching the evening news.
Haru Matsuura
@AAWW
https://t.co/VoKR4PtDiO @samforbreakfast Omg it’s happening!!! I so wish I could be there😭😭😭 Of course, the horizon
shimmers: limit of her body’s
jurisdiction. I do not rule the body
of the girl I love, nor the body
of the girl I was, who is the city
I go home to, which is an island,
which I am always forgetting.
Lucy Wainger
@aaww https://t.co/cfXomSsc9c In Georgia,
I have never tried to divide my body
by zero. My hair has grown
long and purple, a river in the hands
of the girl I love.
Lucy Wainger
@aaww
https://t.co/cfXomSsc9c @maureenthorson @ArrieuKing Hmm! I don't remember if I particularly had a lot of dorm dreams but my anxieties do manifest in my dreams a lot in somewhat realistic ways. @ThirdWorldNewsr @nodutdol @aafcollective @kpolicyO @mnj_b I'm reading for an event on Anti-Asian Misogyny & War on Jul 29....
across my floor: the burden of smelling the homeland.
Adrian De Leon
⁦@aaww⁩ #poetrytuesday https://t.co/VZKZTYn51Q Years before, leather lashed at my flesh, & I reveried
bloody-knuckled ways to forgive each crack
@aadeleon
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/VZKZTYn51Q Success! We put him outside. https://t.co/KxpoK9kChZ #문예지 #에픽 에 #넌픽션 이 실렸습니다. 저를 믿어주시고 세심하게 읽어주신 임경섭 편집장님과 차경희 #고요서사 대표님께 큰 감사를 드립니다! I am grateful & honored to have an essay in the beautiful #epiic & have editors who trusted my vision. Full text: https://t.co/1UlVbAA92V https://t.co/UL4...
His mother cut open carotid arteries
first emptying sin She did not pray She ate this meat
@kariminilu
@aaww
https://t.co/x1a1H5G5c6 My cousin age six says I think there is someone in the well
My lover age thirty-six says I think those Arab kids are robbers
@kariminilu
@aaww
https://t.co/x1a1H5G5c6 @rddlmethisperth Thanks, and I did! One more day until @SkunkBabePoet and I go on a break from reading subs! Get those poems in! @Rose_Siyaniye @eccobooks ❤️❤️❤️ I did read and got a beer as compensation, if anyone was curious!! Pros: maybe some people will like my poem and I’ll make some poetr...
slurped the broth empty
held the carapace out for
someone to give him more
someone to keep him fed
Mylo Lam
@aaww
https://t.co/g81BoYgsUm the ventilator
chanting keeping the father’s lungs from decaying
into leaf litter before morning
The monks stood in the quiet
Mylo Lam
@aaww
https://t.co/g81BoYgsUm @japanonmymind @southern_review Thank you.❤️❤️❤️ "Are you okay?" Okay? No, I'm not okay
I'm severe I'm severed I'm savior--
sorry, savoring this moment Tasting marrow