Pressure

to play with boys instead of dolls
or pressure from boys
who treated me
like a doll instead of a person

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Carry

I am sorry
I could not carry you
in my arms
because
I could not carry you
in my body.

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A. Kahn creates raw, emotional poetry and creative nonfiction. Her prose has been published in Of Rust and Glass, and artwork in the horror anthology Café Macabre II.