breasts – Cajun Mutt Press

daybreak—
the line he snorts
from between my tits

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getting off
to his newest photo
prison pen pal

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trying to fight her
after she’s gone—
Tequila Sunrise

Lori A Minor is a queer, chronically ill poet and editor (#FemkuMag, Otoroshi Journal) who uses writing to heal from trauma. Her work has been featured in several journals such as Impspired, Failed Haiku, and is/let. Lori has placed in several contests, including the Touchstone Award shortlist (2017, 2019), and was selected for A New Resonance 12. She is honored to have given a presentation on social awareness in haiku at the 2019 Haiku North America Conference and looks forward to being on the schedule again this year. Lori is the author of five haikai poetry chapbooks, including Recycled Virgin.

Nice Rack

When Melanie posted a selfie
on her Facebook page,
wearing a tight sweater,
her volupté on display,
she wasn’t sure how to react
to the comment, “Nice rack,”
left by a man she didn’t actually know.

Going through a divorce,
still in her forties,
she was glad for the compliment
on her appearance,
but the comment was crude;
she felt like an object.

Only, wasn’t that what Facebook
was all about? Indeed,
what Zuckerberg and his pals at Harvard
originally created Facebook for?
Hadn’t she been showing off,
displaying her assets to her own advantage?

In the end, Melanie unfriended the man.
Even though his salacious comment
had gratified her vanity,
she just didn’t need this guy in her life.

Charles Rammelkamp is Prose Editor for BrickHouse Books in Baltimore. Two full-length collections were published in 2020, Catastroika, from Apprentice House, and Ugler Lee from Kelsay Books. A poetry chapbook, Mortal Coil, has just been published by Clare Songbirds Publishing.

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