Isabel Dorn

False prophet with a megaphoneStacking guns to build your throneDo you fight for the children? Do you fight for the...

I watch from the crowd as you speak to the masses, your pale face untouched by the blistering sun as...

you said it was a “good run” you said I was a “real one” but how can you walk peacefully...

I learned to blossom in a greenhouse, darling Each leaf was sculpted for the crystal vase They pruned my thorns...

you’ve always been a reckless driver never looking in your rearview but do you know the fires I walked through...

starlet eyes and scarlet lips violet glitter fingertips she’s so bright beyond her years so well-spoken, so sincere hands folded,...

She was a woman of water, formed in a Pacific tsunami and he was man, born from barren soil, grown...

*Adapted from "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (1861) by Harriet Jacobs A garret nine feet long and...