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Aug 14
Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 14
Thank God I Can’t Drive by Camonghne Felix My brain is trying so hard to outrun this. It is doing more work than the lie.I could go to jail for anything. I look like that kind of girl. I only speak one language. I amof prestige but can’t really prove it. Not if my hands …
Aug 13
Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 13
Femme futures by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Where does the future live in your body?Touch it 1 Sri Lankan radical women never come alone.We have a tradition of coming in groups of three or four.The Thiranagama sisters may be the most beloved and famous,but in the 20s my appamma and great aunties were the Wild Alvis …
Aug 12
Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 12
Hematology by sam sax while he lives here’s a list of images light in a filthy glass pigeon dead on the high spiked window clear plastic bag above him full of water if water could kill everything that lives in you & it can — i sit in a corner of the cancer ward fingering the …
Aug 11
Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 11
Smell Is the Last Memory to Go by Fatimah Asghar on my block, a gateon my block, a tree smelling of citrus & jasmine that knocksme back into the arms of my dead mother. i ask Ross how can a treebe both jasmine & orange, on my block my neighbors put up gates & staredon’t …
Aug 10
Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 10
Separation, Parts by Dani Janae for Sarah I’LL NAME MY DAUGHTER ZARA—an ode to you as force goingvastly in every direction.I speak to become a childin the early stagesof recognizing her own voice: teach me how to braid my hair.Teach me how a name hangs onlike a gummy tooth. Descent.All these years of my life. …