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Bleeding lightening bolt of anxiety in the morning
Heat of the day smears itself on my consciousness
Sun stains my skin wine red
Skinless yearning
Alien air of the subway so still, its static charge
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Acid treacly cologne makes me long for a man to touch
Neon blood orange sunset
Blameless moon
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This poem is from the chapbook Sun Stains by Callie Hitchcock (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/sun-stains-by-callie-hitchcock/
Gathering poems from over ten years of writing, Sun Stains by Callie Hitchcock searches for love and meaning in uncertainty. These poems are saturated with loneliness, longing, hope, oblivion, fantasy, dreaming, love, and the warmth of the sun. Together, they form a light to walk through the unknown.
Callie Hitchcock is a writer, journalist, and graduate of the NYU journalism Master’s degree for Cultural Reporting and Criticism. She has published writing in The Believer, The New Republic, The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, Slate, and elsewhere. She is the producer and host of the podcast Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock where she interviews nonfiction authors, writers, and journalists. She lives in Brooklyn.
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