Bonus: Sartorial Scrivener Exposed
Some poems I've written over the past seven years, plus clothes to match.
First bonus post of March, simultaneously my most and least favorite month! Don’t ask me why! I mean, it’s kind of obvious.
First, some business:
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On with the show! Today, I have a very concertedly paywalled post for you full of the most vulnerable thing I could possibly share: My own poetry. Before you run away, screaming, some of these pieces have actually been published in respectable locales! So they must be at least survivable!
And, of course, the poems will be accompanied by fashion inspired by their imagery, structures, moods, and whatever ineffable things I think I see between the lines. I will never stick you with my own poems without a little sartorial carroting.
One poem is visible to everyone, below, and the rest you can access by subbing! For $2! Here! One last note—I am credited on the older poems as Emma, which I no longer respond to! I’m Em. :)
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Originally published in Forever Mag as an official selection of Rachel Rabbit White
Grace
Everything is every love
Of mirrors
Of letters
The other person
The definitive
Hearing of a song
While not looking at
A neck
I’m sure I remember
Reconciling
My taking turned inward
But then came a salve
Like me
Deemed unholy
I bore myself
Like that
If earnest
I can trap it
And wonder
When I hope you do
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