Cream Top Half and Half
MADDY ROWE
I slit the throat of a rooster and watched it
bleed out, the audacity of the world to be
this one. Everything is writing,
especially the silence of an animal after it has been bled.
Ripping raw meat off unsuspecting bones, working
a tormented jaw, breaking down muscle
under my malignant molars. My mother never ate
dinner, chewing on the contours of her body instead.
I can’t believe my ability to eat unapologetically
after years of fearing December in January. My mother
won’t be here to see me ask for a second serving;
for the first time I am not afraid of my body.
I used to be afraid of moths because they are
made of dust and dust is made of our dead
skin, but I am no longer running from husks of
myself. Instead, I am kissing the wings of my past.
Maddy Rowe is a poet and performance artist. Their current interests include, but are not limited to: fermentation, cultivation, dirt, teeth, the water cycle, food systems, urban infrastructure, death, motherhood, the digestive system, and the feeling of the sun drying the ocean water on your skin. Maddy approaches their artwork as a kind of metabolization of the world, a practice in which they break down the raw material and process it into language that reflects how things are changed through consciousness and consumption. In a world that is always already happening, she seeks to move intentionally through the constant churning that is the human experience. You can follow them on Instagram @squigglybitch_ for jokes mostly.
The debut issue of Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine. 6×9 paperback, 134 pages.
Poetry by: David Agyei-Yeboah, Maude B., Madeline Blair, Ace Boggess, Ashlee Craft, Zach Crosswait, Zoë Davis, Gavin DuBois, Mal Grace, Erica Hasselbach, Asmi Kartikeya, Daithí Kearney, Maëlle Keita, Ayesha Khan, Emma Lee, Juan Madrigal, Faisal Mohyuddin, Phoebe Nerem, Benjamin Niespodziany, Vaghawan Ojha, Samuel Plauché, Colette Postaer, David Raygoza, Tori Rego, Maddy Rowe, Patricia Russo, Satori, Ayden Scott, Brandon Shane, Sameen Shakya, Anca Varvara-Piccozzi, Ethan Viets-VanLear, Rebecca Watson, Jenny Whidden, gray lindsey, Ammara Younas, Zaid Zaheer
Prose by: B.E. Austin, Johnzee Baptiste, Rohit Karir, Sara Muttar, Sarah R. New, Anna Nguyen, Farhan Nurdiansyah, Eli Sugerman, Dylan Terry
Art by: Fatima B., Bea Bouman, Nathan Doty, Bushra Khan, mahnoor, Zafar Malik, Stefanie Reinhart
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