Tag: publications
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Day Six, ROAR Showcase: For my first friend in America by Candice Louisa Daquin
For my first friend in America Your hand covers mine we pose for the camera and smile a 100 watt smile The American Way since immigrating here, I have learned how to park a truck discovered that shorts are not as anathema in Texas as in Cannes I understand, ordering drinks you size up, trying…
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Day Five, ROAR Showcase: What kind of lesbian would I be if I were born today by Candice Louisa Daquin
What kind of lesbian would I be if I were born today I see your pictures on social media a part of me is envious of your freedom even though women many years before either of us had absolutely no freedom and only those with enough money could consider taking a woman as their lover…
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Day Four, ROAR Showcase: The Abortionist’s Chair by Candice Louisa Daquin
The Abortionist’s Chair Behold the abortionist’s chair not leather, for leather is thirsty this chair is wreathed in glossy rubber that can be wiped down and disinfected to mute the smell of blood this chair does not owe its shape to comfort, nor seeks it nay, the very contour is built upon a premise bringing…
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Day Three, ROAR Showcase: I knew my invisibility by Candice Louisa Daquin
I knew my invisibility I knew my invisibility when the lady next to my mother in the French nursing ward took me in her arms out of pity for there was nobody there who cared to rock a crying child, not wanted by hedonists who erred in pregnancy I knew my invisibility when my mother…
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Day One, ROAR Showcase: Amulet by Candice Louisa Daquin
Amulet No they didn’t write poems about you and they didn’t write poems about me they didn’t write poems about us we were a label, a provocation, pornography perhaps sometimes a curse, misfortune something to deride in that lazy way people who find it amusing to poke fun, do I imagine them now sipping on…
Green Lion Journal 