SWWIM publishes, celebrates, & promotes women, women-identifying & Femme-presenting writers through a Miami-based reading series & the online poetry journal SWWIM Every Day.
how our scars fit into the narrative of these tides
how I breathe you in
how you exhale into my mouth
this sea is the same as our hands
70% of every gesture
moved by a great pull that doesn’t need a name
even though we do
part of me is already gone
eroded by you
or another starry being
and I smile
shining like the moon
on a quiet surf
Alexandra Corinth is a disabled writer and artist based in DFW. She is also an editorial assistant for the Southwest Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Mayo Review, Mad Swirl, Thimble Literary Magazine, and Atticus Review, among others. Her poem, “A Guide for the Visitors of Solovetsky Monastery,” was chosen as a top 10 winner of the Writer’s Garret’s 2018 Common Language Project. You can find her online at typewriterbelle.com.