The Naked Storm after Angel No. 4, by Cui Xiuwem (China) 2006 She has to reproduce copies of herself because her baby won’t come full term, turning point in a naked storm where retreat and thunder are the same. Her iterations are calm, every tile, every eyelash, and none of her selves pierced by the roof splitting up, sea rise above the bridge. Many ways to wear white, she says, stomach punched. The government doesn’t allow processions, short skirts. What will you do with us all, no shoes, all the same, short-banged hair, red eyes from long nights with a tall musician and it’s only September a broken gate piercing with the wind how I, like a monster, just on the outside. Laurel Benjamin Laurel Benjamin has poetry forthcoming in Lily Poetry Review, Black Fox, Limit Experience, Word Poppy Press. Find her work in Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women's Poetry, South Florida Poetry Journal, Trouvaille Review, The Ekphrastic Review (challenge finalist), California Quarterly, Midway Journal, MacQueens Quinterly, Wild Roof Journal, Tiny Seed, and more. She is an Oregon Poetry Association honourable mention, and is a Sunspot long lister. Affiliated with the Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon and the Port Townsend Writers, she holds an MFA from Mills College and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Twitter handle: @lbencleo More at https://thebadgerpress.blogspot.com
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