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Button Poetry, promoting and producing performance poetry since 2011. Check us out at buttonpoetry.com.

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You swallowed the sky, the moon sat in your stomach, a rock, a soft murmur, that erupted as gravity pulled you into yourself.

Dua Saleh, “Hunger”

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I have long since forgiven your lies. I have long since forgiven my body for failing, for breaking. Maybe forgiveness is transitive.

Jared Singer, from Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction

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I wake and I am a burning mahogany. And what I mean is there are days I am engulfed. Other mornings I wake and I am most like the horizon.

Porsha Olayiwola, from i shimmer sometimes, too

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If you break her heart, I will hear it snap with the ear I pressed against her mother’s belly.

Jesse Parent, “To the Boys Who May One Day Date My Daughter”

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They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. There is no proverb about the way to a woman’s heart. The way into her is more important.

Jenesis Fonseca, “The Way to a Woman’s Heart” (CUPSI 2014)

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My thighs say: We don’t want your praise, man on the street corner… man in the parking garage… man in Walgreens while we’re buying tampons…

Desireé Dallagiacomo, “Thighs” (WOWPS 2014)

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You, big lady, were the only Disney character who ever looked like me. And while you may not have had the waistline of a princess, I’ll be goddamned if you didn’t have the swagger of a queen.

Melissa May, “Dear Ursula” (WoWPS 2014)

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The first time I saw her, everything in my head went quiet.

Neil Hilborn, from Our Numbered Days

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Don’t know what it is to get lost in someone and not lose yourself.

Porsha Olayiwola, from i shimmer sometimes, too

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Love is a sandwich. Both are silly little things that we created. We put both in our mouths.

Jared Singer, from Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction

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I wish you unlocked doors // meals prepared side by side // I wish you concerts under stars // with someone you love.

Porsha Olayiwola, from i shimmer sometimes, too

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