Everybody wears denim. A skirt embroidered with cornflowers for Dollbaby. Jackets for the boys. A hair bow for Thunderthighs who flaps her arms above her head to scare off the scrub jay that flits between her ponytail and Bigmouth’s shoulder. Foureyes and Dogbreath have masked their faces with the flag of South Carolina. It all […]
Lisa McCool-Grime
Lisa McCool-Grime: Daphne’s Razor
Daphne used the razor to sculpt her pubic hair into hearts and arrowheads pointing down or on special occasions a star, or stars and stripes, or The Star hanging above the nativity. For Halloween a scaredy cat, even though I rolled my eyes. For my birthday, a peacock and rivers, my red fingernails like coho […]
Lisa McCool-Grime
Lisa McCool-Grime loves Sappho, wallflower women and collaborations. Her wallflower women have appeared in DIAGRAM, Weave, Arsenic Lobster and elsewhere. A few of her collaborative publications include qarrtsiluni, elimae and PANK. Tupelo Press awarded one of her poems first place in their Fragments of Sappho contest.