I found my femininity with him inside of me
I was unfamiliar with the skin beneath the tuft of thick hair, that spiral flower
And the triangle it forms between my legs
Poetry
The Keeping Room is an online magazine for all women writers, poets, and artists.
We are looking to publish your short stories, essays, free writing, poetry, and photo essays that touch on topics related to Women’s Wisdom, Lessons Learned, Self-care, Bodies, Relationships, and Community.
Writers selected for publication will be paid $25
The Plan by Irene Watson
Capture shade of sundials in curled hands.
Shutter hours passing with a shield of metal marker.
Tomato Season
By Emily Patterson
We wander rows and point to seedings,
leafy and lush; Adoration, Early Girl, Fourth
The Water Cycle
By Luciana Francis
Water breaks, we are born. And here’s our little lake,
looking upwards; the days not yet in focus.
MOTHERS
By Claire Scott
Dead twelve years, dusty in a drawer of my heart, like the leaf insects and giant earwigs in the basement of a natural...
Foot party
By Alys Willman
The first time, you didn’t know what to wear, and were broke anyway. What you had was a short, satiny dress, fishnet...
Color Me Hungry
By Jennifer Thornburg
That was a good launching pad, the sandstone circle at the cemetery where we hung off the marble hands of Jesus, his...
Birthing Space
By Kelsey D. Mahaffey
There is comfort in the crumpling. That slow surrender syncing low, where body takes the lead—like a knowing before...
A Year To Heal
By Marigo J. Stathis
I once woke up in wild winter, paralyzed by change, when claws emerged and storms surged sunken snow and white wombs...
Honeysuckle
By Tifara Brown
Black bodies are honeysuckle For dry white lips Sweet tender stalks Crushed between towers of broken ivory You crush...