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Madeleine Wattenberg

Madeleine Wattenberg is the author of I/O (University of Arkansas Press, 2021). Her poems also appear in Poetry Magazine, Poetry Daily, Salamander, The Rumpus, and DIAGRAM, among others. She holds a PhD in poetry from the University of Cincinnati and is an assistant professor of writing at Lakeland University.

Luminous Gender Vessel

Fall 2023

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By Madeleine Wattenberg

You enter my eye as if willingly, a flesh-filled hologram, acids and enzymes teething on your figure’s edge. Satellite, illusory bird’s-eye view: circling, bright bite through the dark window, desiring […]