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1st Shake me Kiss me Make me Give in Ignore my innocence Appeal to my curiosity Leave me to my uncertainty In a few weeks I’ll worry...

I’m Not Ready Yet I love him I want him he’s sexy so sweet We’ve gone once already we’re back in the sheets I’m not ready yet I’m not...

A wall of skin. Late 1960s inner city gym class swimming, most of the boys don’t own suits anyways, the ones who do, don’t wash them, the...

What should I say to you, lily of the valley, jumper of horses, holder of turtles who still swim in our ruined tower? What more can I...

Tracie T. Nichols Before the hands in the night. Before the forced exposures. Before my morning school bus rides, hobbled by hidden pain.

Tracy Grinstead-Everly Vanilla is the scent of rape. I have tried many times to make it NOT that, to make it the scent of nurseries and...

Tracie T. Nichols I am flesh annealed. Strong but jagged. Malleable but shatterproof. Tempered young— exposure by relentless exposure....

Wendy Jensen They are still here. An unspoken presence first fully realized within the air and ground of the forest. Inseparable from...

Naimah

slm The shedding of anything isn’t easy. Letting go of all that has been built up Over time, Under pressure, Through something As simple...

Valerie Twyman I was born an identical twin. Many years ago, I looked up the meaning of our names. Vera, who died after living for only...

Tracie T. Nichols Radiant sun streaming over your shoulder, jump rope warm in my small hands— small hands— and you say, You can be...

Leslie Hill It is late afternoon on a Friday, and almost everyone in our family is at a Fourth of July block party down the street. I...

Jess Woolford dress to suppress step into sack sweats hide inside hoodie no shape: too ugly to rape or so they say spontaneity? a...

Caroline Cottom Texaco Man Daddy’s footsteps on the stairs shake the house he flips on the bathroom light flushes the toilet hard...

Jess Woolford where began it? this sense: safety stolen? was it back there? schoolyard where boys tracked took you down ...

Michael Dufresne and the window speaks to the flesh in these clothes conveying a pulse a remembrance of what it was like to be against...

Ron Blake

Tracy Grinstead-Everly *Dedicated to my abusive ex-boyfriends and others like them, To those of us who, despite them, are still here, And...

Joan Clare You are not a pyromaniac. You are merely an extremely unhappy 12-year-old girl who gets her hands on a real book of witchcraft...

Shaillee Juneja She traversed the darkness Those paths filled with Muted and forced silence Aching heart Violated body And a broken...

Clay Jones “Would you PLEASE set the table!” Mom laughed with a smile. That was our job. I got water for four and my sis Becky, four...

Tracie T. Nichols choked on unsought moisture forced through every mucus-lined threshold a small girl body forms in trusting fetal...