Mannequin Pussy Romantics

Mimi Flood

Polaroids across the floor/ our imperfection traits frozen in film/ In most I closed my eyes and you had a big smile on/watching movies at a drive- in on a black leather backseat that smelled like cigarettes and sex / your fingers spidered onto my thighs and underneath my skirt / you had a stale bottle of church water on the floor where my foot crunched it / I let out a moan / it was the first moan I actually meant / I stared out the car's skylight / we danced at mannequin pussy shows /at the bathroom door you held out your palms with my beating heart or a dying bird / love is something like an apocalypse / you taught me its delicate.

Mimi Flood-she/her is the author of Provocative is a Girls Name ( Querencia Press) and Slut Pop ( Dark Thirty Poetry Publishing). She has been published in  Dark Thirty Poetry Publishing, Querencia press, The Graveyard zine, Scar Tissue Magazine, Published With Papers, and Gypsophila. You can find her on Instagram Marigold_Jesus.