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Terri Linn Davis
@terrilinndavis.bsky.social
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Virgo (Scorpio rising) | co-EIC @icebreakers_lit | poems & reviews @TBQuarterly @flypaperlit @Dailydrunkmag @Fivesouthlit | @kenyonreview ww '22 | host @TooLitToQuitPod
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Here’s a little poem that came out last month. <3
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Woman breastfeeding baby on cover of MER Self Portrait as Unfolded Laundry Week after week I am undone, gathered into four to five plastic baskets I am at once too many and not at all what anybody will need tomorrow
May 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I quit writing poems. I’m Bigfoot now
Woman dressed up as Bigfoot and posing
April 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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my magnolia tree is getting ready to bloom & here's me & @dannyderock.bsky.social's flash we wrote together where these trees are a gateway into the multiverse. Or, then again, maybe love & grief is the gateway?
I Am Cast Into the Multiverse By Terri Linn Davis and Daniel DeRock Moonpark review I planted the magnolia with your ashes and watched it grow unwieldy. A limb thrust out, reaching like fingers. Egg-shaped leaves emerged, their veins searching—and below, the same, the root system split—mineral dendrites, coral, a drop of blood on white fabric, a crack in a windshield.
April 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Good morning, this turkey was having a bad time. It did this for about 20 minutes. During that 20 minutes, it was accused of not being real, my 3yo kept chanting “what if we cut it?!,” and I wrote a poem about it. Good bye, turkey. I hope your day gets better.
April 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I told my 3yo to draw me a monster & he did a really good job
Scribbles on a paper with two Googley eyes
April 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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My favorite thing about LA was all the photo booths
April 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Just really in love with my friends, yall
Group of 5 women smiling on the street Group of 4 women posing in a lighted hallway near bathrooms A man and two women posing in the back of a car
April 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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The secret to having a fun AWP is choosing someone to have a little crush on everywhere you go
April 1, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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I survived
Woman standing on a street corner with her arms behind her head holding an AWP tote
March 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Oh, hey! Thank you to The Penn Review for publishing my 2nd ever flash fiction piece! Would you read it? Would you, please, love it forever?🦎

www.pennreview.org/opaque
OPAQUE Terri Linn Davis It started with nictitating membranes. After she’d found her grandmother with her eyes open— frozen and cold in bed instead of sleeping and warm, she began collecting animals with pale, third eyelids.
January 12, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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Was worried about what I’d get my sister for Christmas, but then I saw this
Mozzarella sticks 90s sweatshirt. Picture of mozzarella sticks on grey sweat shirt bellelement.con
December 21, 2023 at 11:58 PM
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Hey, if anyone is going to be in New Haven on a Tuesday night on January 23rd, I would love it if you’d come hang out with me!
Open mic surgery presents Terri Linn Davis Tuesday, January 23, 2024 6:30 pm Volume two: a never ending books collective 810 state street, New Haven, CT
December 20, 2023 at 12:45 PM
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I have a collabrative poem in this issue of @s2fjournal.bsky.social with my spark, Abigail Hora! I absolutely love this journal and this creative exercise.

Thank you so much to editors, Katherine and Natalie!

Read the whole issue here!:
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On a Sunny Morning, I Teach My Four-Year-Old How To See My Bones From The Outside Terri Linn Davis (Flame) and Abigail Hora (Spark) I hold my hand out to him and make a fist, and my knuckles the tendons and bone show through my skin like white sharks in the shallow end of a pool. He and I are riveted by bone, confined by red spider lilies. I know it is hard to acknowledge the skeleton inside your mother. I show him I am bendable and make him laugh by folding my ear into something smaller than what it is, like a mollusk or a map of the world. He finds a flashlight and learns how to ignite my fingernails into blood windows. There are acres of capillaries behind stained glass, and he shouts the verb, "bleed" instead of "blood." Your mother is dead, and this grief is a kind of bleed-ing. Even now- it reds, it spiders, it lilies.
December 15, 2023 at 6:09 PM
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My very first flash CNF was published with @pitheadchapel.bsky.social ! I've loved and submitted to them for many years, and I'm so so happy that is the one that stuck!

If you like The Spice Girls and the 90s (and me ), I would love it if you'd give it a read 🩷
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Woman posing seductively Pre-teen children posing on a desk in club clothes
December 1, 2023 at 4:45 PM
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Here’s my 13yo’s costume. He got called Chewbacca, planet of the apes, gorilla, yeti, and kitty?

Anyway, here’s Bigfoot
Kid wearing full length Bigfoot costume outside
November 1, 2023 at 12:48 AM
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Happy Halloween Eve
Jack o lantern Tina from bobs burger “butts”
October 30, 2023 at 2:40 PM
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Oh man. My baby is 13 years old today. I’m thinking a little bit about how I was also a baby at barely 23 back then, too.
Woman looking down at a baby
October 20, 2023 at 2:17 PM
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Daily motivational quote #7
Person on a rock at night staring out at the Milky Way. “You got big feet. You gotta buy big socks” -my four year old
October 19, 2023 at 1:40 PM
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Daily motivational quote #6
Person meditating on a cliff looking out at the ocean. “He pooped and he tried to keep it on like a secret. Why does he always keep poop secrets?” -my four year old
October 18, 2023 at 11:24 AM
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Daily motivational quote #5
Person stranding in a field of flowers arms outstretched. “Fly. Jerk!” -my four year old
October 17, 2023 at 2:05 PM
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Daily motivational quote #4
primal screaming* -my four year old
October 16, 2023 at 12:18 PM
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Daily motivational quote #3
Person standing in the sun on a mountain with their arms outstretched “no. We don’t poop on humans.” -my four year old
October 13, 2023 at 1:38 PM
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Daily motivational quote #2
The background is a person helping another person whose fallen off a cliff “ Get up, you old west baby” -my four year old
October 12, 2023 at 11:25 AM
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Daily motivational quote #1
Your butt will be the hand I’m holding -my four year old
October 11, 2023 at 11:30 AM
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I got these at AWP!
Taylor Mali’s metaphor dice “roll, write, repeat” starter set of 12 dice
August 25, 2023 at 6:27 PM