Natalie Wee

Measuring Girlhood

in teeth in red / in dress sizes zero / to not fuckable enough / in vanishing acts / shut knees soft voice doe / eyes spine made / soup for hungry bellies  / in a father’s first / in a boy’s hands at your / throat in don’t / forget your place in keys knifing / out between / each knuckle a / rosary in swaggerwhistles / shredding sidewalks into / safezone versus hunting / ground in shaving / the difference / between woman and raw / meat in boys will / be boys until / you push back in / which you should not / push back in rehearsing / my court case long / before my rapist makes / his way / between my thighs / in a body antlered / in every forest / where a tree asks / to be cut down

Natalie Wee

Natalie Wee is the author of OUR BODIES & OTHER FINE MACHINES (Words Dance Publishing, 2016) and ONCE IN A BLUE MOON (BookThug, 2018). She is the Associate Fiction Editor at Broken Pencil Magazine. Her first book is now available at http://natalieweepoetry.com/.

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