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The Mad Mermaids
I went to catch a wave with my local librarian.The sun was smiling, like I’d told a joke,and I was glad to be lost in the crowd.Tsunami of girls, all locked inside of our assigned roles,the fathers of fascism storm the streets,but they fear femininity,how it weakens men,makes them indecent and unkind. I am a…
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Love Is An Exorcism
Last night, unclaimed flames, floated across the islands, and followed us to the shore, to watch, from the heavens, as you left mountain avens, on my lips. I slept, silent and still, by the mermaid’s grave. I dreamt you were waist deep, in the water, the jealous moon, showing off, shining on your bare chest,…