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Working: Vol. 4, No. 2 - Issue 14 Summer 2025

the crisis ii​

habitual to unquestioning
validity
balking now
having suspected this your
logic as deluded
fragmentary
no shame or shame ensconced
bloated and belabored
woodworms or
woodworm
applied
​
poorly
is how you grieve
crimson faced
enraged
but this
it was not me not
my doing myself i
extricate
bewildered
no more

Melissa Morano Aurigemma
is a writer, artist, and doctoral candidate studying phenomenology. She appreciates the ability of poetry to capture phenomena of the lived experience. Most recently, she has utilized poetic output as a space to explore being and belongingness. She spends her time in Italy and New York.

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