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Emma—intern at Melville House; staff writer at The Female Gaze; contributor to Birdfeast, Two Serious Ladies, Used Furniture Review, Vinyl, Handsome, Keep This Bag Away from Children, etc.

Writing site

Latest writing:
- "Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed" at The Female Gaze
- "Quarter-Sonnet" and "Selvage" at Keep This Bag Away from Children
- "Fond" at Vinyl
- "You in California" at The Juvenilia

"whisper of yellow globes
gleaming on lamp-posts that sway
like bootleg licker drinkers in the fog

and let your breath be moist against me
like bright beads on yellow globes

telephone the power-house
that the main wires are insulate

(her words play softly up and down
dewy corridors of billboards)

then with your tongue remove the tape
and press your lips to mine
till they are incandescent"

— Jean Toomer, “Her Lips Are Copper Wire” (via gammasandgerunds)

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