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Prayer Bent

By Muzka, Dallas, OR

Your body, bent into the prayer position so long you became stuck that way. Just as your mother said you would. Just like those Chinese cats stuffed into bottles. bodies maturing all wrong just to fill the space allowed. You find you talk to everyone as though they are a dear sweet angel. wash ...

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Sunday in the Kitchen

This work has been published in the Teen Ink monthly print magazine.

By Muzka, Dallas, OR

dear mother, i ask you how far we are from heaven. hunched over the sunday paper like a patient gargoyle. your eyes blinking too often, and your tongue snaking around your mouth, as if the answer is hidden between your teeth. dear mother, you hum holy bars in the kitchenette. say “hal...

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It is like this

By Muzka, Dallas, OR

you wish for the knuckles of mountains soft skin clinging to a skeleton of knives you cannot stand the way you swell on hot days, sick of seeing the world through a layer of warm fat. the way your legs look when crossed has lost it's elegance, your boneless back, hideous. you fall asleep gnawi...

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