Sara-Anne Beaulieu

when will you be
a temple, she asks. I am
scars and stretch marks. loose skin over
hips. I’ve been sucked
and stuffed. thighs lumpy
peanuts in a sack.
inside, the stomach bleeds from
constant vomiting. nasal passages
are corroded from narcotic binging.
imagine that!

a baptism. the body
fluid as water. skin streaked
from each caressing finger. your blue
illuminating sky. to stop pulling
each strip of skin from the lip.

imagine that first taste
as Eve did. that succulent,
rough grain of apple.

sara anne

Bio:

Sara-Anne Beaulieu is a graduate of Roger Williams University (BFA, Creative Writing) and New England College (MFA, Poetry) and is currently adjunct faculty at Massachusetts College of Art and Fisher College, where she teaches rhetoric.

Beaulieu is the former Program Director of Literature and Poetry for Mad Poets Cafe, a monthly poetry night that was held at the Warwick Museum of Art and hosted by Boston poet Harris Gardner. While with Mad Poets Cafe, Beaulieu worked with poets such as Don Share, Forest Gander, and Franz Wright.

Beaulieu has completed a manuscript and has publications by The New York Writer Coalition (Plum Biscuit) Tattooed Highway, My Favorite Bullet, and is published in the anthology In Our Own Words.

"Exposure" by Cecilia Ferreira

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