Lynn Melnick’s poems have appeared in Paris Review, jubilat, Guernica, and LIT.
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Lynn Melnick’s poems have appeared in Paris Review, jubilat, Guernica, and LIT.
Do you know what it’s like when a body twice yours
holds you down in the room where you make your life
until you wouldn’t know how to move even if he wasn’t
holding you down and then he splits you further open
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