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May 13, 2019
Megan Febuary
Choices

I'm proud of myself

for not biting back

for refusing to use

words as swords

Choices
May 7, 2019
Megan Febuary
PROTEA | Protea Cynaroides

She roars

moves

emanates Life in spite of extinction

PROTEA | Protea Cynaroides
May 6, 2019
Megan Febuary
Sexy Sovereign Splendorous Sober

Power is the pleasure I was taught to warily
shrink away from.

Sexy Sovereign Splendorous Sober
April 29, 2019
Megan Febuary
I Write For You

I write for the woman who swallows the small blue pill
who smiles outwardly, yet inside wars a battle that no one can see ..

I Write For You
April 23, 2019
Megan Febuary
Senses

You will stand at attention and you will hear
With every decibel
A resonant echo
That casts out
Fear. 

Senses
Megan Febuary
November 19, 2021

What Grief Likes

Megan Febuary
November 19, 2021
What Grief Likes

1 caretake the lost causes, a mother’s legacy

the healthy ones count their crackers to be seen

Tagged: poem, Women writers

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Megan Febuary
November 19, 2021

Psychosis

Megan Febuary
November 19, 2021
Psychosis

i could breathe if i wanted to / choke

on salt water / watch fish

Tagged: mental health

1 Comment
Megan Febuary
November 18, 2021

On Returning From Leave

Megan Febuary
November 18, 2021
On Returning From Leave

maybe she doesn’t have the fire today.

maybe she couldn’t always persist.

Tagged: poetry, motherhood

1 Comment
Megan Febuary
November 17, 2021

Longing

Megan Febuary
November 17, 2021
Longing

I don’t think I have ever felt a longing

That runs this deep

Tagged: pOETRY, nature, writing

1 Comment
Megan Febuary
November 16, 2021

Devouring Five Bottles...

Megan Febuary
November 16, 2021
Devouring Five Bottles...

Devouring five bottles of malt duck and a bag of lay’s potato chips

with the godfather on a night of pouring rain in late October

Tagged: pOETRY, poet

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Megan Febuary
November 15, 2021

A Lonely Summer

Megan Febuary
November 15, 2021
A Lonely Summer

flowers bloom as bees come out to squeeze sweet nectar

dry throat and relaxed muscles

Tagged: pOETRY, Women writers

2 Comments
Megan Febuary
November 10, 2021

Miscarriage

Megan Febuary
November 10, 2021
Miscarriage

“can you look at it” i asked,
without meaning
to say those words

Tagged: poetry, poem, miscarriage, grief, motherhood, Women writers, for women who roar

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Megan Febuary
November 8, 2021

A Daughter's Lament

Megan Febuary
November 8, 2021
A Daughter's Lament

On Friday’s I search
For your face in mirrors,
visiting bars soft lit by streams of
sapphire bulbs; by eight-o’clock

Tagged: poetry, poet, Women writers, women poets, for women who roar, writing, healing, women

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Megan Febuary
October 27, 2021

Interstate 695

Megan Febuary
October 27, 2021
Interstate 695

"I'll never drive on that road again," she said,
as if it was the road who killed him
with her tempting curves
and shimmery guardrail waistband.

Tagged: poetry, writing, writer, Women writers, poet, literary magazine, for women who roar

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Megan Febuary
October 26, 2021

Pastel Projection

Megan Febuary
October 26, 2021
Pastel Projection

I asked to keep
the lights off—
and in the pitch black
you pulled me in

Tagged: poetry, writing, women writers, literary magazine, trauma, healing, for women who roar, online magazine, magazine

1 Comment
Guest User
February 27, 2021

How to Make Round Rotis

Guest User
February 27, 2021
How to Make Round Rotis

CW: Abuse

Tagged: BIPOC, POC, WOC WRITERS, FWWR, POETRY

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Guest User
February 25, 2021

Three Poems

Guest User
February 25, 2021
Three Poems

Anxiety

Don’t Eat That

I Swallowed Tears for You

Tagged: WOC WRITERS, BIPOC, POETRY, FWWR, WOMEN WRITERS

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Guest User
February 23, 2021

In Praise of the Deepest Winter

Guest User
February 23, 2021
In Praise of the Deepest Winter

smoke whirls in the air, great swaths of grey

snatched up in the sharp winter sun, the chilled wind

clawing its way across the brick exterior of the bar

Tagged: LGBTQAI, QUEER, POETRY, TRANS, WOMEN WRITERS, TRANS WOMEN WRITERS, FWWR

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Guest User
February 20, 2021

The Door | My Ancestors Cries

Guest User
February 20, 2021
The Door | My Ancestors Cries

I walk toward I step through the door—

the door.

Tagged: WOC WRITERS, BIPOC, POETRY, FWWR, WOMEN WRITERS

2 Comments
Guest User
February 18, 2021

Conservation of Momentum

Guest User
February 18, 2021
Conservation of Momentum

I know it's a sexist thing to say, but women

aren't as good at making music as men…

–Julie Birchill, former NME journalist and author

Tagged: FWWR, POETRY, MUSIC, WOMEN WRITERS

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Guest User
February 16, 2021

To Silence –From Defiance

Guest User
February 16, 2021
To Silence  –From Defiance

The silent slip of

My tongue over the

Glassy roof of my

Mouth caught

Tagged: FWWR, POETRY, WOMEN WRITERS, WOC WRITERS

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Guest User
February 11, 2021

New Name

Guest User
February 11, 2021
New Name

Let this halted journey have nothing in common with who you are, who you dare.

It happens, every accident, in slow motion; your past finding a full stop.

Tagged: journey to heal, FWWR, pOETRY, women writers

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Guest User
February 9, 2021

Next | Survival

Guest User
February 9, 2021
Next | Survival

First the toes seize up. We triple in size. Cower behind our blue ox. We fasten our fingers over

our mouths so that they may not find us by our breathing.

Tagged: POETRY, FWWR, WOMEN WRITERS, WOC WRITERS

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Guest User
February 4, 2021

Her Body A Temple

Guest User
February 4, 2021
Her Body A Temple

Mirrors stretch ceiling to floor only

wall decor her own body black-legginged

taut white tank top torso-molded

action figure ready to raise iron

Tagged: Poetry, women writers, FWWR

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Guest User
February 2, 2021

Three Poems

Guest User
February 2, 2021
Three Poems

By Israeli-born poet Lee Broda

Acre, Israel

Last Time I Checked, I Was Still an Israeli

My Aleppian Legacy

Tagged: BIPOC, WOMEN WRITERS, WOC WRITERS, FWWR, POETRY

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