Hypatia Artemisia

4 She had that dream again — chimpanzees under her bed. Human-looking animals scare her. So does Ronald McDonald. So do cameras with...

“Moon, tell me if I could, send up my heart to you, so when I die, which I must do, could it shine down here with you?” “My Love Mine All...

You press “= ” and the answer trails off the screen. You chew the eraser stub in annoyance, wondering where you could’ve gone wrong,...

By Hypatia Artemisia I’ll be your wet dream, I'll be your femme fatale, I’ll be your good little girl. Look me up and down — Don’t I look...

By Hypatia Artemisia I’m sunbathing on a pale blue beach rock, my spirits dampened by the ugly silhouette of that chemical plant on the...

By Hypatia Artemisia A deaf Japanese chauffeur encounters a Chinese girl with the same affliction moments before the Nanjing Massacre....

By Hypatia Artemisia Just before Dolly went upstate for her procedure, she told me about the star under her bedroom floorboards. “I’m...

By Hypatia Artemisia They tell me “boys will be boys” “Its hard for men to control themselves” My disgust is palpable. You call yourself...

By Hypatia Artemisia I. OVERDOSE easy, but lazy and sloppy. I fear the shame of waking up. my life is a ruin but my death — my death must...

By Hypatia Artemisia I’m going under again Under and under The water is cold and slimy Slamming against my chest My head goes under then...

By Hypatia Artemisia Oh! My country, my home Land of the brave and free. The huddled masses teeming At the twilights last gleaming. Rise...

By Hypatia Artemisia I am my father’s daughter my eyes are his eyes soft outline but piercing gaze his wrinkles already imprinted on my...

By Hypatia Artemisia Everyone loves a bad boy, but what about a bad girl? Can a girl be damaged, sick, twisted? Bad girl, I’m such a bad...

By Hypatia Artemisia If I’m a crashing wave, You’re the boulder I’m crashing against. I have so much fire inside me — I’m burning up, I’m...

By Hypatia Artemisia Oh you are such a big man! So big and so full — Of yourself, so full — That you are spilling over And filling me,...