If Some Lessons I've Learned the Hard Way Were the Titles of Poems
Haylie Stopher
1. Cut Open
2. Strawberry Curls with Flawed Ends
3. If Hell Were a Woman
4. Some Thorns Taste so Good
5. Plucked
6. The Loose Mouths of Gutters and the Bums with Crucifix Faces
7. Liquor Bottles Make for Interesting Caskets
8. A Ghost Without Feet Belongs Everywhere
9. Don’t Tell the Crowd the Answer, They’ll Only Change the Question
10. If Only I Hadn’t Had a (Mostly) Loving Mother
11. A Bowl of Cereal at Midnight Saves a Life
12. Salt and Pepper Flavors the Pain
13. The Day I Painted My Nails the Color of God
14. Promises Made of Meat, and Everything Else Poisoned
15. Cannibal
16. Have You Ever Woken Up Hungover in Jesus’ Living Room?
17. I’ll Tell You Everything I Don’t Know
18. The Truth is Tired of No One Wanting Her
19. A Dog at the End of the Bed is Me
20. Smile, It’ll Cartwheel Itself Eventually
21. When You Beg the Splinter to Stay and Fester
22. The Day the Serpent Grew Legs (and Bit Them Off Before Anyone Noticed)
23. To Be Human, Or to Stand Beneath a Full Moon
24. Divine Toilets Flush to Earth, and We are What Comes Out
25. Flushed.
Haylie Stopher is a LGBTQ+ writer and artist from Louisville, KY. Her favorite place to write is in the shower. Her first ever publication was at the age of twelve in A Celebration of Poets Anthology (Creative Communication Publishing).