Me Too SeriesrbdCatherine Chambers, me too, poetry

Catherine Chambers: #MeToo Series

Me Too SeriesrbdCatherine Chambers, me too, poetry
Catherine Chambers: #MeToo Series
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THE PREGNANT MAN

 

Isn’t there always

a boy (but this time

I’ll humor him and say man.)

We are all pregnant with something,

but in men I’ve found (who have found me)

it’s usually something dead.

 

A Virgo with a rising Cancer (me)

will try and heal

the fissures and stretch

marks that cover him (A Scorpio probably.)

I am under

the impression that he wants me

to feed him these horse pills,

taste mud season.

 

A girl who buys into star signs (also me)

will lubricate him (with the way I talk)

with Crown Maple Whiskey shots in the snow

without (a bra or) enough layers on.

 

A man (him) with something dead

inside bent me over and ate my ass

(to the best of my recollection) behind a house

older than both of us put together 

(the way we were

against clapboards.)  

 

What I remember: Orion

the hunter, (it was winter) the joint

in my hand (I was high), the name

of his son (whose mother was being

cheated on), the fact that at least

this way the dying thing in him

wouldn’t get inside me, looking up

at the rain gutter (help me), wondering

which one of us would cry first. (Me again.)

Catherine Chambers is an Asian-American mermaid living in Brooklyn with her dog, Bob Dylan. She is currently completing her MFA at the University of Southern Maine and edits Poets Resist for Glass: A Journal of Poetry. She tweets about Virgo stuff at @CatChamberz. 

Me Too SeriesrbdDemi Wetzel, me too, poetry

Demi Wetzel: #MeToo Series

Demi Wetzel’s work can be found in Broad! Magazine, Face á Face Collective, and her chapbook—Life of the Party— was chosen as a 2017 Floating Bridge Press semifinalist. She graduated from University of Southern Indiana located in the same city where she was born and raised. Demi now lives and writes in the U.K.

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Demi Wetzel: #MeToo Series
Me Too SeriesrbdRachel Evelyn Sucher, poetry, me too

Rachel Evelyn Sucher: #MeToo Series

Rachel Evelyn Sucher is a queer-identified Vermont writer, activist, performer, horsewoman, and intersectional feminist. Her poems have been shortlisted for the International Literary Award (Rita Dove Award in Poetry) and the Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets, and longlisted for the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize. Rachel is the founder and editor-in-chief of COUNTERCLOCK literary & art journal, an editor at Sooth Swarm Journal, a social media manager at Half Mysticpublishing house & literary journal, and a founding member and editor at Mandatory Assembly literary journal.

Me Too SeriesrbdRachel Evelyn Sucher, poetry, me too
Rachel Evelyn Sucher: #MeToo Series