Happiness hinges on hips that twist
into Calvin Klein jeans, size zero.
Strutting like a fevered Saturday night,
we prance past boys, chins cocked
over ...
M.R. Mandell (she/her) is a poet and photographer based in Los Angeles. A transplant from Katy, Texas, she now lives by the beach with her muse, a Golden Retriever named Chester Blue (at her feet), and her longtime partner (by her side). You can find her work in Boats Against the Current, The Final Girl Bulletin Board, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, JAKE, Roi Fainéant, sage cigarettes, Anti-Heroin Chic, Stanchion Zine, Fine Print, unstamatic, Drunk Monkeys, Olney, The Cherita and others.
Forthcoming: Five Minute Lit, JAKE, Writers Resist, Drunk Monkeys, Remington Review and Unbroken.