Elizabeth Train-Brown
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Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
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2022
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Defunkt Magazine, Vol. VII
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Dancing on the Knife Point
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A Witch Called Ivy: Collected Poems & Stories for Children
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Hello! Won't address the rest of this review, because fair enough everyone's got their opinions, but wanted to quickly mention the fatness comment. I'
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“i don’t think i’ve ever felt so cold
than when i saw my dad cry
or when i tumbled into a gutter
folded
like a
paper swan
and slept in the rain.”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
than when i saw my dad cry
or when i tumbled into a gutter
folded
like a
paper swan
and slept in the rain.”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
“in this raging, poisoned sea at night,
it is just me
and death”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
it is just me
and death”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
“not before i have prayed in the rain,
washed the blood from these old bones,
not before i have stripped away everything
that remembers you and stepped into heaven
as a naked star”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
washed the blood from these old bones,
not before i have stripped away everything
that remembers you and stepped into heaven
as a naked star”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
“i feel like a woman’s words
in a man’s book.
there
but in his voice”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
in a man’s book.
there
but in his voice”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
“i am drinking sauvignon
while my housemate shags upstairs
and i will write poetry
before the night is through.”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
while my housemate shags upstairs
and i will write poetry
before the night is through.”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
“all i can think is that aphrodite
was born from the severed penis of a god
â€� so what would come of my tits?”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
was born from the severed penis of a god
â€� so what would come of my tits?”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
“and she will throw apart concrete to find me,
will raze these buildings to the ground
with a smile on her face and the smell of my sweat
teasing her tongue”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
will raze these buildings to the ground
with a smile on her face and the smell of my sweat
teasing her tongue”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
“i’ve never won a bet
but i saw god in the bathroom mirror
and found my mother’s maiden name
carved beneath a seat”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
but i saw god in the bathroom mirror
and found my mother’s maiden name
carved beneath a seat”
― Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman

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