Angelica Whitehorne is a writer living in Durham, NC with published or forthcoming in Fourteen Hills, Meetinghouse Magazine, JMWW, and Poetry South, among others. She is the author of the chapbook "The World Is Ending, Say Something That Will Last" (Bottle Cap Press, 2022). Besides being a devastated poet, Angelica is a Marketing Content Writer for a clean energy loan company. You can find more of her work on Instagram at a.w.ords and on her website: angelicawhitehorne.com.
He cuddles in the armpit of the sliding door. Until he soars back and forth, and slams against the glass, demanding elsewhere. The escapism in him seems teenager—so I call him young, although he could be thirty, or so. Pack animal, but he’s an outsider among my shelves of used paperbacks and prefabricated wood. Some Native American tribes say bats… Read more →
It’s so embarrassing to have anything known about you. Shoe size or where you are ticklish. Oral allergies. The long, lapsing brain fog of your hormonal miseries: cringe categorizations of your sorry existence. There’s an app to identify species, as if a toad is not just a toad; a roach, not just a roach. As if a sad bitch is… Read more →