Catherine Zickgraf

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"Roll it up and pass it to me"

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Tomb

Category: Writing and Poetry

Our limbs wove together—threads on a loom. Yet our fingers carry a dead womb, an empty room, we hold nothing between us. Yes, we were briefly three, but nev » Continue Reading

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Transcend

Category: Writing and Poetry

She smokes in bed now when undisturbed  by disowned hair coiled like snakes in her  sheets, dusted with skin off her legs, or by  ashes like cremation in her blanket ripples.   How chill her calm, resting well in a mess,             igniting a quick death or inhaling it slowly.   » Continue Reading

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Burning Ants

Category: Writing and Poetry

I was  immoral . You used to rod my soft legs. I’m older now. » Continue Reading

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Mirror

Category: Writing and Poetry

She finds her firstborn son.  He appears in her Myspace search  the day he completes his childhood.  » Continue Reading

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Passage Rites

Category: Writing and Poetry

You’re ten, trying to sit still but your blinks grow long. You’re following crumbs from pew » Continue Reading

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Poem Unnamed

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My weakness: I tell all my secrets. Living on front street, I glistened on stages. How easy to entertain with imaginary beauty. » Continue Reading

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Disown

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I still bleed, cut from her tree.      » Continue Reading

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Safe

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After 3 days free on the street,   I was returned t » Continue Reading

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Screw You All Who Are Complete

Category: Writing and Poetry

Normally, I'd snap pics right now through my computer, like pausing life in a mirror, but that computer is broken.   No pic, then, can show me here bathtub-swimming in the sliver bracelet he bought me  one anniversary he was home from the army.   My hair’s tied up, the sides sliding out-- if I had the pic, I'd send it to an  online friend so someone  could appraise me as beautiful.   » Continue Reading

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Haunt

Category: Writing and Poetry

I visit myself in the basement sometimes.     » Continue Reading

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When She Hurts

Category: Writing and Poetry

Take her hands. Help her hold herself in when in pain, » Continue Reading

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Knots

Category: Writing and Poetry

You wake inside a pile of wire hangers. » Continue Reading

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