Category Archives: Poetry

JKLM (I wrote you this letter)

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Melanie Laura

you will hold your corpse above him where his hair used to be Continue reading →

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Letters Home

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Melanie Laura

What black lies in white with brown smudges?
what hands lie in wait for mixing colors?
I want to paint blue in front of you
hold services for your adolescence Continue reading →

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Longer Around

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Melanie Laura

I’m rounded and warm on the table
a solid bowl for you
in the wake of your flesh leak, I think mostly of your eyes
the outline of the space between your give and my bite
or the shadow that follows the shape of you, when you’re facing me
now I am out and over, with a spoon
ready to be slapped or served to you Continue reading →

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Mirror Limit

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Melanie Laura

Now it’s nearly Valentine’s Day
and I am painted red with your hands
and your splitting chest
soon you will be sliced open and closed back up Continue reading →

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Bubble wrap

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Melanie Laura

I could not taste you close, when you first fed you were brown and beige colored memory then nearly four years later, we met again between Fort Greene stares my rolled up hair and my fingers numb I was cold … Continue reading →

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As/Us Issue 5

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Melanie Laura

It just occurred to me that I never posted this! Just in time for my birthday in December, my poem and the audio version of my poem, Firehouse, was published in As/Us! I’m honored to be featured alongside several amazing … Continue reading →

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Halves

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Melanie Laura

What is white that fits in Black and white halves and Black smash? I bet his hands would hold the stretch I bet my body would shake, if pressed I was full of sex and honesty full of him and … Continue reading →

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Cracked

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Melanie Laura

I was sure your taste on my gums had evaporated but I found you awake in my hands sliding down my wrists like a messy egg yolk stopping first between my palms then between my thighs so I tried to … Continue reading →

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Typoetic

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Melanie Laura

My poems, “Song of Myself” and “Opening on Your Closing” are in the latest edition of Typoetic on pages 53, and 64-65. *one of the stanzas printed twice in the second poem.

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Rip Out (edited version)

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Melanie Laura

you loved me whole from the gut until my flesh was caught in your teeth then you sliced me open with your heat all I remember is fuck you and fuck me and we fucked and forgot until the words … Continue reading →

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