Apr 8, 2021
2 min read
Female in Four Parts
A previously unwritten segment from my forthcoming chapbook “Don’t Tell Grandma”
So don’t ask me why I never said a thing.
Your answer is in what you taught me —
how you taught me to fear my skin —
that the only way to win was
to be less than everything I am.
from “Purity Culture” by Julia Marsiglio
