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My poem, Ribcage, was just published in issue 15 of Impossible Archetype!

You can read the full issue here: impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com/15-2/

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Top left title 'Impossible Archetype issue 15', centre title, 'Ribcage by Rachel Handley'.

'Ribcage

First, you feel secrets in the chest,
a kind of blood, a bright blooming,
a strange kind of thicket, ousting
the ribcage. I could let them go,
I am hungry enough. Prying
open each opening, fingers
twisting for a strange kind of switch.
I wrestle the blood out of me,
handfuls at a time and you look
at me exactly as if I
had blood on my hands, as if I
am guilty, denying myself
a woman. While I congratulate my truth:
No longer a sister. A them, they, their.
A not-usually-her and you’d
look at me bright with red and turn,
quick to not have blood touch your skin.'

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