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Birth Dream
Victoria Garton

While fish blow
the bubbled song of pigeons
I rise through sun’s
fierce blood clot.

Snorting algae, fish,
and maidenhead,
I beach on sand,
placenta’s grindstone.

Like a starfish’s stomach
extends over what it needs,
my mouth latches on.
I suck in the ocean’s pulse.

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In 2023, Victoria Garton’s chapbook Venice Comes Clean was published by Flying Ketchup Press. Her flash fiction has been accepted by Bright Flash Literary Review, and her poems have been published or accepted by Clarion, Cosmic Daffodil, I-70 Review, Proud to Be (Honorable Mention), Sangam, Sparks of Calliope, The Ekphrastic Review, The Penwood Review, The Seraphic Review, Thorny Locust, Vital Minutiae, WayWords Literary Journal, and Wasteland Literary Magazine.

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