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I Keep My Body Like a Secret

February 15, 2015 WooState 0

By Sarah Leidhold In the locker room labeled “Ladies” with pink cursive curlicues, I keep my body like a secret. Every curve is clothed in an opaque hue of hush. Cotton licked by sweat slickly […]

Godzilla

February 15, 2015 WooState 0

By Sarah Leidhold Boots crunch when you walk, it doesn’t mean it’s baby bones, he told himself three steps into the heart of Hiroshima- after it happened. So quiet, all you could hear was the […]

By Sarah Leidhold From the shorelines where gravity holds you like a dainty anklet dangling with alabaster albatross, watch: as I recede into the velvet -lined shell of a spiraling introversion. I’m not coming out […]

If I Could Use Your Hands

February 7, 2015 WooState 0

By Billy Aubin If I could use your hands Can I use your hands? Not as instruments to hold my phallus To place me amongst the male hierarchy Not as weapons I can […]

Yo soy Latina

May 4, 2012 WooState 0

By Debbie Suarez You call me Black, Mulatto, African-American, Mixed Pero ‘cha ‘cha “Yo soy Latina!” You ask “What are you?” I answer, “A Homo Sapien” Y “Yo soy Latina!” You tell me […]

Re Trans Planted

April 27, 2012 WooState 0

By Margarita E. Pignataro Child Taken From her land Uprooted Exposed Transplanted Roots Dug up Turned over Fresh Innocent Still Uncovered Unloved Unprotected Unstable Tossed To The other side… […]

Tierra lejana “Far Away Land”

April 22, 2012 WooState 0

By Juana Pignataro En esta tierra de todos donde nadie habla a nadie donde todos somos extraños ya sea por nuestra piel o por nuestra lengua, donde nos llevamos la peor parte por no […]

Mind Games

April 18, 2012 WooState 0

Don Fitxpatrick at his home. Spring 2012 By Don Fitzpatrick 2012 Facing the test that tests the best A drain on brain and tissue Must seek outside the realm of me Survival now the issue […]

Death of a Dream

April 14, 2012 WooState 0

By: Santos Taíno Santiago Something inside me killed my dream I remember them like yesterday’s news Passing by the moment Passing like a hail storm Leaving the cold drops to melt on the pavement […]

Tenement Skies

April 14, 2012 WooState 0

By: Santos Taíno Santiago I WAS BORN IN THE GHETTO SURROUNDED BY TENEMENT SKIES CROWDED BY MISFORTUNE A STORY OF MISERY AT EVERY DOOR A STORY OF HOPE ON EVERY FLOOR LOOKING BACK AT […]