Poetry

"Women who ring" by Cathy Ferrell

Women who ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies. We ashes. We fall down. We call. We shoot the shit. We gab, we idle.

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"The First Time I Saw Girls Afraid" by Erin Pinkham

"Mama won’t let me watch One Tree Hill / anymore. Ever since that one night / we saw Peyton and Brooke tied up / in the basement of Peyton’s childhood / home and they were screaming

/ through a cloth gag tied to the back..."

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"another naming" by Erin Pinkham

"you taught me how to say mozzarella / like the way your mother did and the way I too / was supposed to teach our children / i still can’t / say your name / my therapist says it would do me good / write you down..."

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