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Author: Samantha Rose

Samantha Rose resides in Portland, OR. She loves using poetry as a form of social commentary, and such writing is often inspired by her degree in sociology and philosophy. She enjoys art of all forms and her work has been featured or is forthcoming by Nightingale & Sparrow, Mohave He[art] Review, Down in the Dirt, Quail Bell, and more. You can often find her painting with coffee when she's not drinking it with her nose in a book.

don’t you dare (pop), boy

December 5, 2020December 5, 2020 Samantha Rose

did someone burst your bubble, boy? or did you just have too much to drink? get your lies drunk and high as you? coat them in effervescence until your lungs fly you away? you were always ready, boy, ready to pop. and you know you’ll never get it back, get Read more

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Smoke and Mirrors

July 21, 2019July 21, 2019 Samantha Rose

and you, with all your glorious flowering self-deception ~ your words are glowing embers and your tongue stokes the fire that engulfs me like paper but I think it fills the void inside of you. how does it feel to sleep with the lies you’ve fashioned from the flames? some Read more

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Recovery Looks a Lot Like Picking Up a Paintbrush

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 Samantha Rose

my skin isn’t paper but that doesn’t stop me from carving the weight of the world into my wrists crimson blood tiger stripes. or from ripping apart the pages of a story i never asked to be in don’t judge a book by its cover-up that is, pant legs and Read more

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Beige Violence

January 16, 2019January 16, 2019 Samantha Rose

this abuse didn’t come in black and blue. his fists never ricocheted off her veins as they spiderwebbed into plum colored welts, blood never bloomed crimson peonies from the corners of her mouth or rooted between the cracks in her teeth. but I saw him feast behind her wooden ribs Read more

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Shulie

November 11, 2018November 11, 2018 Samantha Rose

When I tell you that she is a fireball, I mean to say that she fears not the charring of cultural silks and rods, burning up oxidized visions until her words are carbon-sealed upon the perennial page, her feminine veil forged in smoke. When I tell you that she is Read more

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