Emotional Health – Page 15 – FEMININE COLLECTIVE

Bone Spurs

July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 Jacqueline Cioffa

You cannot ram your way through the pain You cannot wish away the sorrow Lord knows I’ve tried to slither, shed skin, and hide away the day Do you want to know a secret? The fucking hardcore pain, the really ugly snot nose teary eyed drop to your knees and Read more

Moving on

July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 Paakhi Bhatnagar

You are so much more than the scars on your wrists Or the ones on your back that no one sees, not even you You are a flower and you have been watered down And you have been stepped on The sun has barely kissed your skin And your tan Read more

Wildflowers

July 11, 2019July 11, 2019 Jamie Sawczyszyn

The most painful heartbreak I have ever known has hidden itself under the guise of love; but between you and me, in reality, no one has ever broken my heart worse than I have. Every single scar on my body is a tale of my defeat. Underneath the sleeves of Read more

Tunnel of a Fat Woman

July 11, 2019July 11, 2019 Elisabeth Horan

In my tunnel of a fat woman I only hear songs Do u really want to hurt me Do u really want to make me cry To be thin as a bird No extra fat, one can fly I would die 4u Only if u want me 2 Farther than Read more

Dead Girl

July 6, 2019July 6, 2019 Jacquie Prebich

I saw the familiar dead girl dancing in my basement spoon cut off the apron ties the dead girl said I’m jonesing to fuckin cook copped some works; from a friendly stranger’s hand the handle bent; the spoon a Jesus cradle the dead girl prayed tapping, arousing, blue hungry veins Read more

I PASSED OUT

June 13, 2019July 6, 2019 Billie T. Stark

Queen Violet? Dream flowing like blood from your wound? They put you away, huh Darling? You wear a hospital gown and stand on a rock. Natives surround you, raw sex in costumes strange to us. I want to stand beside you on the rock to take your place but I’m Read more

Lessons

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 Melanie Jones

In the beginning, you will feel like you’ve landed in a world completely different to anything you have ever known or imagined, almost as though a tornado struck and whisked you off to another land. As you begin this journey you will feel like a modern-day princess. You will be Read more

Recovery Looks a Lot Like Picking Up a Paintbrush

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 Samantha Rose

my skin isn’t paper but that doesn’t stop me from carving the weight of the world into my wrists crimson blood tiger stripes. or from ripping apart the pages of a story i never asked to be in don’t judge a book by its cover-up that is, pant legs and Read more