Neon Mariposa Magazine
Three Poems by Alyssa Hanna
the night you tried to romance me by turning me into a dried butterfly this is the first time i’ve ever spoken about you, and it will...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- May 7, 2019
- 2 min
Two poems by Amanda N. Butler
An Element of My Own Sometimes I am fire – blue tongues lapping at my cuticles blue veins stoking my beating crucible palm to leaf, palm...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- May 7, 2019
- 2 min
Three Poems by Juliette Sebock
Blue Sky Eyes We walk across the bridge, your hand tucked in mine, and all we see is the sky. The sky and the birds-- How you love the...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- May 7, 2019
- 1 min
Three poems by Rickey Rivers Jr.
Brave Nudity Naked woman walking senselessly, in this city you are lost and unknowing. You are listless, uncaring of your nakedness. Be...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- May 7, 2019
- 3 min
Firsts by E.E. Suchowolec
The first time I noticed the feminine physique, I was five. Disney’s Fantasia played on the television, a massive silver box with a domed...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- May 4, 2019
- 1 min
Four Poems by Vanessa Maki
Vanessa Maki is a queer writer, artist & other things. She’s full of black girl magic & has no apologizes for that. Her work has appeared...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jan 3, 2019
- 1 min
First Time in L.A. by Archana Sridhar
The moon-faced old man hauls my suitcase Into the underbelly of the Buzz Lightyear Disney Express The velcro of his single black glove...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jan 3, 2019
- 1 min
The morning after by SaraGrace Griffin
I wake up and I am not me. These are not my wide, wrinkled hands, These are not my indigo bruises Grabbed in fistfuls of cellulite As I...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jan 3, 2019
- 2 min
better than this one by Linda M. Crate
i still remember as if it were yesterday, every bead of sweat even! of how i refused to even want a kiss but you forced me to kiss you...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jan 3, 2019
- 1 min
Two Poems by Elisabeth Horan
Pelado 1940 Muy, muy, pero muy Masculina So you don’t think you will Get to touch a woman anymore You can lick a moustache Touch my...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jan 3, 2019
- 3 min
Three poems by Adrian Ernesto Cepeda
Mesmerized by Her Hands From A portrait by Alfred Stieglitz of Georgia O'Keeffe (3), 1918 She loves to wear my dark blue Navy pea coat...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jan 3, 2019
- 3 min
Two Poems by Meeah Williams
What Happened to All the Unicorns? I’m a good girl. I do my homework. I assiduously read the comment section of every transgender story I...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jan 3, 2019
- 1 min
Ashes by Dani Marty
She took in authors recommended by the man she loved. Took in words to open herself to him and clung to past conversations long...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jan 3, 2019
- 2 min
Two Poems by Shawn Anto
Model Son The only slaughterhouse is my freedom. 27 years have ticked by Being: a good son Being: a model minority Being: absolute. For...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jan 3, 2019
- 2 min
Two Poems by Wanda Deglane
Slowly Becoming this is how you learn to live in a woman’s body / it starts slow, like winter dawn / more hair here, more hip there / so...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jan 3, 2019
- 1 min
Some Day Traveling Carnivals Will Be America’s University System by Justin Evans
Summer walks in gradual, but leaves in a huff, leaving me to fend for myself during autumn chills. I have no names for the months— only...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jan 3, 2019
- 2 min
Two Poems by David Bankson
Together The world fogged its lights and draped gray in our eyes like shuddering clouds above a darksome land. The day heard the city...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jan 3, 2019
- 1 min
Drizzle by Mateo Lara
for S, after ‘On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ by Ocean Vuong Mateo Lara is from Bakersfield, California. He received his B.A. in English...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jan 3, 2019
- 1 min
An Ace Desire by Constance Bougie
In which I do not love, Do not want him close— But think it would be nice, To touch his lips— Reach out with Two fingers and Push at his...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jan 3, 2019
- 1 min
Two Poems by Caroline Grand-Clement
my god. Caroline Grand-Clement my god wears flannel shirts tied around their waist. my god has too much gender to be bottled up into a...
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