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Norma DaCrema

"I’m trying to find the ravine around the bend, / the borrowed cars parked along the alfalfa / with all of us at sixteen making love by AM radio"

Norma DaCrema

"It's hard to breathe in here, / overwhelming warm like a Hallmark store, / heavy with mint and Miss Vance's Aviance."

Cerulean Walker

"I didn’t / even cry at books until this year, / let alone a world I don’t really even want to be a part of."

Elsa Valmidiano

"Now with the news all over the internet/you want to put me away/and call me a cursed woman./Can you now see why/I never told you?"

Adele Evershed

"don’t expect them to talk / of the suffering of women / they are not interested in the plight of the born"

N.M. Campbell

"The line went dead, and Gertrude slumped in her chair. She looked out the window, sighing. The leaves turned as the skies darkened over the Capitol."

Nicole Desjardins Gowdy

"Ophelia has words for her pain / she calls herself / survivor / she rises from the ashes of her former self"

Elsa Valmidiano

"I wasn’t exactly sure how abortions happened, except it was a word tossed around school grounds as easy as saying, 'Math.' It was an easy word. A common word."

Bibiana Krall

"This body is my universe, / but it has never been free."

Marek Kulig

"High time too that monarchs / are remonstrated / for their geometry- / non-conforming flight patterns."