NORA ROSE TOMAS

MY SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL BLIND SPOTS ALSO SERVE AS A BIKINI COVER UP

I am beautiful in the way all girls are beautiful
in that there is something insane about it
I get ready in the morning and I put on
my good body
I earned it
I was born and dedicated
to the cause of
my deconstruction
my parted
existence
pleases
endlessly
how angry
can you be
at a lawless
hand
a
freed mouth
women
are
easiest
to love
in
pieces

Nora Rose Tomas is a queer writer living in Brooklyn, and she has an MFA in nonfiction writing. Her work has been longlisted for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and nominated for Best of Net and Best Small Fictions. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Iowa Review, Epiphany, Taco Bell Quarterly, Post 45, Brooklyn Poets, and The Colorado Review, among others. You can find her at norarosetomas.com or on Instagram @dr_sappho.