Jen Palmares Meadows - The Rumpus.net

First, in the Saturday Essay, Byron F. Aspaas bares his slowly healing scars of communities lost before they were found and countries-turned-battlefields to remind us that our transformations into our true selves are never complete. And the Rumpus Inaugural Poems project continues on this last weekend of freedom with “& who , this time” by Hanif […]

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: We Be Bleeding

By Jen Palmares Meadows

January 15th, 2017

It will be red like your neighbor’s convertible. And like that convertible, there will be a spreading open, an exposure of vulnerable flesh.

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The Eager

By Jen Palmares Meadows

July 23rd, 2014

We were then young girls and our want was written on our skins. Between our legs and along our necks and wrists, our skin craved friction and more friction.

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