Main Squeeze Literary JournalBeing born bald is a dangerous matter which requires much security. Imagine that you raise a hairless kid. Such a terrible feeling, right? That’s what my mother felt. Imagine your head is nothing but a naked ball while you live in a world where everybody wears feathers, leather, and golden wigs. Ashamed of my baldness, […]
Today the gods rained salt onto open-mouth skin. I saw rats waver and shake on plastic bucket edges after free samples were served behind the garbage bin.They say it tasted like almonds. Stoned snails shrivel up in the light of the morning sun or drown in the disk of jubilant drink. But take this with a grain of salt like a shot […]
Like someone tellingstories about apricot peels,We get a little fruitybefore we get gay.Stuck my tongue in your earwe’re whispering slursto each othercall the kettle queer. I like my sepsisheavy on the cream,spread my bleedover scones and soft bread rollsWe make our oppression sweetwith jam and honey andPineapple-flavored pre.You backwash estrogenWhile I shoot up my T […]
I am like the bagelleft in the flaming toaster ovenset to broil when you meant it lightly browned.You are tasked with scrapping all my blackened inedible layers into the trash. I love you for this. Julia Ponder is a teacher, writer, and poet living in the Hudson Valley region of New York. Her poetry and creative non-fiction […]
A giraffe, that is a blind glass, that is K. Silem Mohammad, that is, he can’t read.K. Silem, pour me a drink, Mr. Mohammad, give me a smoke,give me your cat so I can rename him“Dax Ralter” which you wouldn’t understand becauseyou like the wrong star, Mr. K. Silem,you live in the wrong house and this was going to […]
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