Category: Our Poetry
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Eight wrote this in 2022. It’s called “salome”.
my teen years taught me nothing of importance except how to write clear and deepabout what hurtsI’ve written enough by now to fill a small library, solook back with me – I prayed for an ideal in cold rooms and I still became the only one who couldsave me you look at me at my…
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I wrote this at the poetry workshop today. It’s called “strange entanglement”.
I love you in a way you cannot love yourselfin a twice divorced, second wife way that never happened, you want me so bad you don’t care if your chokehold love is killing me and I think it would kill you to stop pretending I think it would kill you to let me go even…
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
My friend mk and I are doing a joint performance in December and we hope to see you there! Here’s the flyer: I’m so excited! -Allēna
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Day whatever the fuck it is of posting our ekphrastic pieces because I can lol
This one is based off of “hurricane lazarus”, one of my favorites from our new zine. In other news, I couldn’t remember the name of my world history teacher and it bothered me so bad that I looked through emails for hours from 10+ years ago and came up with nothing but exhaustion, so I…
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About to read at this online event in a couple of hours:
I’m going to be reading some new pieces, some old ones, and some selections from fear not the brave pain 💛. I hope you can join us! -Allēna