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Gone Lawn 60
strawberry moon, 2025

Featured artwork, Poppy, by Susan Barry-Schulz

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Choiselle Joseph

on the car ride home from your tubal ligation


you pinched the moon from its socket    mangled it in your teeth like a mint wet mushy and twirling on your tongue you reached through the window   through the nights cool gasp   stuck it back in place   its craters still glistening with your spit   you unspooled orions en garde   draped him round your wrist like sterling   morning after   hips full of embers   you tucked the rising sun   behind your ear   with a whistle scattered its rays   like dandelion seeds   as light as your knit insides   shoulder blades   ribcage   stretched to the burstbrink   like rubber swollen trembling with helium   even with ache       weightless


Choiselle Joseph is a writer from Barbados. Her writing centres gender, the body, and decolonisation and their current project is Hummingbird, an in-progress chapbook exploring daughterhood through myth and surreal imagery. They are an editor at The Saartjie Journal.