Straight Lines
To draw a body is to find its center line. The line may sway energetically, but proper curve is only admitted in relation to this center.
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To draw a body is to find its center line. The line may sway energetically, but proper curve is only admitted in relation to this center.
Spread over indigo light, sweat-
dimpled and satisfied, she basks Continue Reading
The moon like a cut of beef
All violet and indigo on the ascending sky
Fluid petals
All real
On the chin
Of a new body
Julia Laxer writes across genre, reveres the ocean, and uses writing, performance art, and spiritual practice to explore archetype and ritual. She won the Orlando Prize from A Room of Her Own in 2014 and is featured in journals and anthologies including Luna Luna Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, So-to-Speak, Zócalo Public Square, and Yes, Poetry. You may reach her on Twitter @JuliaLaxer.
the way you kissed me that nightContinue Reading
sunriseContinue Reading
If you’re not willing to hold someone
for an hour while they cry
then we can’t have sex.
I’m new at crying you see.
It’s a skill I forgot.
brilliant is the noise
of palming myself
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Liberty as a Luxurious Thorn of the Future Content
Today our twin skeletons fell upon the tired chromatic sheets
like earth. The day began to look like the moths