Grace Dilger: Let Me See It
Photo: Joanna C. Valente
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At fifteen I was 100 lbs. in soaking denim,
tits like cornflowers (the bachelor’s button),
and the garnet flush of my cheeks itched
in the draft of the cracked window frame.
You photographed me on your flip phone,
ripping a blunt loose as a sandcastle.
Your blonde braids patted my gums
as you enlarged and after I said let me see it.
You offered me your dick like a macaroon
on a platter but I had meant see the picture.
Grace Dilger is a poet and educator. Her work has been featured in Peach Fuzz Magazine, The Brooklyn Quarterly, The Southampton Review, Grody Mag, The Elevation Review, Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors Vol. 9, Slug Mag, The Racket Journal and the forthcoming issue of Poetry City Vol. 10. She received her MFA from Stony Brook University.
