slowburn: a sapphic poetry collection

By Ama Lee

The middle of the night is for many things-binging a show, playing your favorite game, crying out the hurt, even writing the insomnia away. Like most things, Slowburn was born in the middle of the night, inspired by both the joy of the media Lee loves and the joy

• Language: English
• Publisher: APA
• Release date: Sep 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088076170

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slowburn

a sapphic poetry collection

By

Ama Lee

Copyright © 2023 by – Ama Lee – All Rights Reserved.

It is not legal to reproduce, duplicate, or transmit any part of this document in either electronic means or printed format. Recording of this publication is strictly prohibited.

Cover Illustration by Abigail Legner

acknowledgments

All good things are done in threes.

To my sister, who called me an author before anyone else

To my Sable, who inspires my inner Sappho

To the ao3 community, who taught me to love my writing

My deepest desire remains having my poems be your fic titles one day

I want so badly to be loved

but I am blind to such a thing

Agony is the lie

of saying never again

as you pick up the phone

I once thought I would not see

glimmers of light

so long as they did not see me

childish

you cannot