Bonnie Billet 8/9/18 Bonnie Billet 8/9/18

I’ve had to slap scream and shove my way to NO

my step mother said she’d feel nothing

if she were raped

Cleopatra Lim 8/4/18 Cleopatra Lim 8/4/18

grandma’s basement

my childhood broken, into quarters in slots of gashapons.

Laila Halaby 7/31/18 Laila Halaby 7/31/18

I was not the target
I was collateral damage

Abigail Kirby Conklin 7/27/18 Abigail Kirby Conklin 7/27/18

Hey, new girl.

You do yoga, right?

Danielle Holmes 7/24/18 Danielle Holmes 7/24/18

Covered completely and yet I felt naked, filthy with the grime of adolescent appraisal…

Gabriela Jimenez-Carrillo 7/20/18 Gabriela Jimenez-Carrillo 7/20/18

I’ve contorted my name

Into basic syllables