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Category: poetry

My City By: Elliot Martin

January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 by pwatem

Illustrated By: Amina Coleman-Davis The concrete jungle speaks. I hear its voice “Give me liberty or give me death!” It echoes. God speaks in this city. The city will not

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HUNGRY GIRLS By: Nadia Leiby

November 27, 2019November 21, 2019 by pwatem

We are the hungry girls. Greasy hair and soft lips, we pore over our vices like rats in a dumpster tones no longer hushed as we wail our deepest fears

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TO THE FIRST PERSON WHO TOOK CARE OF MY BODY By: Nadia Leiby

November 21, 2019November 21, 2019 by pwatem

I am bathing in the taste of yesterday’s you, Slivers of ourselves tucked between my sheets You, mumbling beautiful nonsense, face pressed against my breast, the sirens of Richmond outside

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Smudging By Amanda Blake

August 22, 2019August 22, 2019 by pwatem

I’ve kept the photo albums you sent not on a bookshelf inside my house, (There is no welcome mat for you) but in the pocket of my passenger-side door. No

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untitled by Devin Manning

April 18, 2019July 23, 2019 by pwatem

your hands are chains i have never wished to break free from. they hold me firmly yet i couldn’t dream of being let go. your fingers glide slowly over every

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