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Eve, A Flapper
by Nadia Farjami
she rises with the ravens & walks
on the street bare
she shuffles her tap shoes on
the cement
she clutches cigarette
smoke and
wraps it around her waist—
a loose corset
she’s boneless;
her skin is sticky
with cider
she’s no longer
in eden,
but she’s finally
her own
Nadia Farjami is a poet and high school student from Southern California. Her work has been recognized by The New York Times, The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Cathexis Northwest Press, Polyphony LIT, Prometheus Dreaming, Hollins University, Youth Poet Laureate and more. Nadia is a Marketing Intern for the Adroit Journal and a Genre Editor for Polyphony LIT.
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