Second from right. Photo at http://amberatiya.tumblr.com
if my slumlord allowed pets
i’d adopt every
after hour paw
mauled in battle
trimmed with scabs
toppling trash
for fries & wing tips
fur splattered
with egg foo young
these streets
weren’t paved
for tenderness
a tabby’s pregnant belly
low-hanging
as a rain cloud
a swollen nimbus
grazing the ground
by Amber Atiya
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Amber Atiya, a queer poet and native Brooklynite, has performed at the Nuyorican Poets Café, Theater for the New City, Westbeth Center for the Arts, and many elsewheres. Her poems have been published in Tribes Magazine, Drunken Boat, and Coloring Book, an anthology of multicultural writers. She is a member of a women’s writing group, with whom she’s been writing for ten years and counting.
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