Khairani Barokka



praise poem for these girls i was

who rake the floor with want clawing wood with blunt nails asking for rest in bold italicised underlined, cursing subsequent void vomiting false diagnoses in each day, a new house of panic a prayer to god in a language they …

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matrihaemoglobin

i. i will not bear children. my hips wide and unyielding. our arms, rivers of bloodline. minangkabau—world’s largest matrilineal society. our continuation, padusi. our joys, bundles of infants. the choice to unmother in one way is a choice to mother …

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