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By: Aaron Smith | October 16, 2019

I told my therapist that gayness // has always been more aesthetic for me / than sexual. I’d rather have the magazine // than the man in the magazine.… More

Three Poems by Kiki Petrosino

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By: Kiki Petrosino | August 14, 2013

You died in the pith of August. You left us. / In rageful choke, in dust: you left us. // On your coffin lid: Going Home. A bluebird. /… More

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Three Poems by Kiki Petrosino

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