Poetry Quotes
The men in this poem have many names:
He is the sore loser from class, who to get back at me,
outs my sexual abuse to my baby brother
the guy who calls himself a feminist because it gets more tinder matches
the wedding guest who thinks rape jokes are icebreakers
the guy who scares away creeps in alleyways and demands dates as payment
The guys in this poem are probably sitting in this room
Always demanding femmes explain rape culture to you, right now
What you are asking for is an execution.
-A Definition of Rape Culture
Crooked bones, failed bridges
Water never needed to
stretch far to hold me.
-Sea-Born
People keep asking me when I got sick
As if they’ve ever known me healthy
-Mythology Of Disease
my eyes,
windows abandoned
Friends bolting out the door at first whiff of trauma
-Shelter
Learning how to let myself
be water and earth
-Self-Care
Anxiety is siren
singing to my body
Begging it
to shed my skin
-Waterwounds
My femme family line
is so used to fitting ourselves
into to someone else’s
planter box
And calling this self improvement
-Motherline
-Bones Of Fire