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Monday, May 09, 2022

HANGERS

by Mark Danowsky



“Let’s be clear about this: Roe wasn’t the beginning of women getting abortions. It was the end of women dying from unsafe abortions.” —No Dem Left Behind PAC


Blood in the streets

Blood on our hands

No Plan C

No icy nurse

No forced videos 

No waiting room

No chosen futures

Blood spilled by the broken 

Blood of a thousand splintered lives 


Mark Danowsky is Editor-in-Chief of ONE ART: a journal of poetry. He is the author of As Falls Trees (NightBallet Press) and JAWN (Moonstone Press). In 2022, his poems have appeared in Kestrel, The Broadkill Review, tiny wren lit, Anti-Heroin Chic, Otoliths, Harpy Hybrid Review, The New Verse News