It is 6 am
mood stabilized
on pills and
tits ripened
in shots in
my ass in
the early
mornings
of wednesdays
where blood
gushes
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Sappho Stanley (She/they)
Sappho Stanley is a transsexual poet. She is in the first year at The Ohio State University’s Creative Writing MFA. She also serves as a production editor at The Journal. You can find her work in other places: Novus Literary Arts Journal, Texas Review’s The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume IX: Virginia, and the lickety~split. You can find her anywhere on social media @sapphostanley.