Issue 28 | Spring 2023

every woman is a perfect gorgeous angel and every man is just some guy

Sophie Bebeau

(title taken from a tweet by Caitie Delaney, @catiedelaney)

every woman is a fossiled fern limestone impression

made of threads that backstitch the first moon

and this moon together

every woman is July, is heat and black powder, is night

grass and PTSD, rocketing back to the evening

star with the other migratory black holes

every woman is a worm moon, whose belly is also

a folded heart, creased and pressed into a swan

kneading her wings into paste

every woman is a sumptuous lace front dress

whose buttons buzz and purr and fall away to reveal

another sumptuous lace front dress

every woman is a murmur, a cardiac hound

a backflow of blood collared up

in the rafters of her small organs

every woman is a trial in absentia, she’s in bed, she’s kissing

a small light, tenderly tugging at the fabric of her body

she’s rubbing her gamma ray glands against a notion

every woman is the rarest asperitas cloud, chewing gum soft

like the curve of a clef, feeding on ocean gyres and shedding

a downy velvet into your lucky provincial arms

every man is just some guy

About the Author

Sophie Bebeau is a poet from the small-town city of Green Bay, WI. She studied creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is currently completing a BFA in writing and applied arts at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She works as a freelance writer, graphic designer, and content strategist. You can find her on Instagram at @sophiebebeau and on Twitter at @magicspaceorb.