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dancing girl press, 2014
$7.00 Kimberly Ann Southwick is the founder and editor in chief of the literary arts journal Gigantic Sequins. Her poetry has been published in a variety of online and print journals. She is an adjunct, teaching writing, grammar, and literature. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, the artist Geoff Thompson, and their dog, Jezebel. god, i’m so excited this time to not makeout with your friend on the air mattress pumped full on your floor, though last night Tim Riggins held a small part of my hand and kissed once the top half of my mouth --i woke up all romantic, closing my eyes, forcing my brain back to a mess of teenage bodies lying on a tattered couch. i wasn’t even drunk on television, i wasn’t even drunk. and the way the flowers smelled like the end of something, i just wanted to go back to being only a body, something warm that could feel his fingernail tracing a line into my palm, the pattern of a scar— a tattoo i don’t have yet. |