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No modification necessary I was born perfect. My size nines do not fit in my husband’s palm but he never asked me to crush my bones and bind my feet for his pleasure, a past tradition of control. I could never erase the me I was...

One of three poults he spurred our sympathy with his nightly limp across the lawn, always the last in a chorus line of five. We found his challenge endearing, his mother’s patience merciful as she hung back while siblings...

Trauma defies the strongest adjectives, a verse unworthy of our lexicon. There’s history maneuvering behind the eye, a tree that’s lost it greenery, silhouettes heightening upon the evening grass, birds perching on the edge of...

On nights a cloud would cover up the stars an autumn rain would spell out s-o-l-i-t-u-d-e on vacant windows, shadows looking out and taking note of you, their attitudes much sharper than the shifting shapes they took. The heavy...

What keeps me here could be the morning birds, five pairs of wings ascending toward the sky without an explanation, trees now dumb without their cries or songs, a bird-less yard imprisoned with its August silences. What ties me...

baby hold on I didn’t tell you you could go I need you here with me just a little bit longer to look in those eyes and know just what you’re thinkin’ to tell you one more time how much you mean to me baby hold on I didn’t tell...

I hold on, tight leaning in arms wrapped around you your hand on my thigh squeezing my leg in that way you do and I hear you laugh and let go coasting down no handed and as my head screams “Hold on!” my arms lift to float, too...