Kyla Flanagan
Button Eye Poetry Contest – Winner
your velvet lips
capture bumblebees
between their folds
you are a silk vagina
with teeth
a pair of dutchman’s slippers
a pouting purse
you thrive in inhospitable peat bogs
the kind that suck away rubber boots
& can drown a python
caught
daydreaming
duels have been won
& lost
over you
men have gone mad
in search of you
a single flower
such power
you freak of flora
witchy thing.
Until recently, Audrey Colasanti has been a closet-poet, writing often but hesitant to submit her work for review. Under the encouragement and tutelage of poet, Danez Smith, Colasanti now has a much-anticipated manuscript – ‘green’ – to be published by The Black Spring Press Group/UK, 2021-22.
Colasanti has been shortlisted for the Anne Sexton Prize For Poetry and the Sandy Crimmons National Prize. She was also a semi-finalist for the 2020 Walt Whitman Award/Graywolf Press and long-listed for the Poetry Society 2020 National Poetry Competition. You can follow her at acolasanti.com
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