Verdad Magazine Volume 26
Spring 2019, Volume 26
Poetry by Lexi Cary
Casa Azul
I will eat ashes in a Catholic country
I will spill blood on the yellow floor
I will chew and swallow teeth
Loudly
Because women have so long been alone
Making self portraits
Bound in corsets
Waiting for the men to come home
From building monuments
How about monuments to fucking
To the nudes we take of ourselves
To our eyebrows
One continuous eyebrow woman to woman
And soft skin spanning a boulevard
Coat this broken world with woman
And watch it run wet
And drown itself
BIO: Lexi Cary lives in LA and works in TV production and also as a singer-songwriter. She has published previously in Germinal Mag, Westwind, and Spires Magazine. In addition she has won the David Sedaris Humor Writing Prize.