Silhouettes watch neon street in stark relief sexing sticking to them in humid night like a cocktail without focus sweats until it burns off potency and becomes just a color. He towers over her in his rigidity the lines of control are taut like waxed instrument unsaid things gather at the edges and she is not panting with pleasure, instead the unobserved attention to a blinking sign almost at the bottom of the wet street almost out of sight with rolling fog fingering cement in its determined passage slurping at dark corners, absorbing light. Even without glasses on, discarded in her parody of perfection, her squint makes out the on-off-on-off warm red arrow pointing insistently, beyond him, if it had a voice she thinks it would say GET OUT NOW.
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Born in Europe, Candice Louisa Daquin is of Sephardi French/ Egyptian descent. Daquin was the Publishing Director at the U.S. Embassy (London) before becoming a Psychotherapist. Daquin is Senior Editor at Indie Blu(e) Publishing, a feminist micro-press and Editorial Partner with Raw Earth Ink. She’s also Writer-in-Residence for Borderless Journal, Editor of Poetry & Art for The Pine Cone Review and Poetry Editor for Parcham Literary Magazine. Daquin’s own poetic work takes its form from the confessional women poets of the 20th century as well as queer authors writing from the 1950’s onward. Her career(s) teaching critical thinking and practicing as a psychotherapist have heavily influenced her writing. As a queer woman of mixed ethnicity and passionate feminist beliefs concerning equality, Daquin’s poetry is her body of evidence.
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