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Phoenix Courtney

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Two poems

November Rose Your friend cried because she was too busy to get sick, you dropped everything and crossed the room to kiss her forehead. I longed to...

Maxine

I first fell in love at eleven years old and felt the heartache down to my marrow. Free-falling, unaware, drowning in bliss; I didn’t see the noose...

An explanation

My best friend, Emily, is a woman and has never doubted that she was one. “What’s it like to have a gender?” I have asked her multiple times....