two views of the ermine fringed writing room
i.
a woman recounts a tussle
with the sharp teeth
of an unhappy day
her children rented out
man by man
the night a long
angry gash
shred open
ii.
religious practices
that favor death
12 rocks and sickles
killed women
at a wedding party
this year
“Follow your weird. I really don’t think you can go wrong with this. The world is waiting for your own unique, strange, beautiful contribution, that thing that no one but you can conjure.”
— Ramona Ausubel
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