Cate Marvin

Mar 27, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Cate Marvin

I regard your affections, find your teeth have left me a bruise necklace. Those lipstick       marks leech a trail, ear to ear, facsimile your smile. Your 40 ounces of malt liquor, your shrink hate, your eyes dialing 911. The hearts you draw with ballpoint on my cigarette packs       when I've left the room, penned in your girl's cursive, look demented, misshapen approximations of what I refuse to hand over. It's a nice touch,       though: a little love to accompany the cancer.

Aug 30, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Gabrielle Calvocoressi |Melissa Faliveno |Cate Marvin

Melissa Faliveno is the author of the debut essay collection Tomboyland (TOPPLE Books, 2020), named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, New York Public Library, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Electric Literature and recipient of a 2021 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association.