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We love how often we get to celebrate the innumerable shapes of trans joy. Today's BODYLOVE double-feature includes two mindful essays by @sg_poetry and a punchy poem by Sappho. Find them in full here, alongside the work of 20 other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

Hungry for more BODYLOVE? Don't worry; we have THREE more days of double-features coming at you! Today, @drewvies_ and @wengerwanger offer poems shot through with celebrity allusions. Find them in full here, alongside the work of 20 other contributors: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

In our penultimate BODYLOVE double-feature, we take a moment to return to the sea. To the sky. To the "something greater" from which our bodies came. Breathe with Carson Wolfe's and Shiksha 💛 JUST READ MY BOOKS, OKAY?'s poems here, alongside the work of 20 other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

Our final BODYLOVE double-feature. Take one last drive along the coastline with @sober_poet; internalize validation's only truth, articulated by three-time Delicate Friend contributor A.R.Arthur-on hiatus. Revisit @flower_dommy's immaculate issue in full here: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

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Delicate Friend is open for submissions to our unthemed eleventh issue through May 15th, 2023 at 11:59 PM EDT! We pay $10+ to contributors upon issue release. Send us your burning yearning, your half-remembered romantic dreams, your T4T fantasies— delicatefriend.com/submissions

Wanna read a speculative love poem about top surgery? Delicate Friend Issue #11 OUT NOW! and I got you: delicatefriend.com/haley-bosse/

🍷 thank you Delicate Friend Issue #11 OUT NOW! for giving me the incredible opportunity to contribute to this beautiful publication! 🙏✨ it's an honor to be featured alongside such talented people :D

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"I bet you think things I could NeverEver think, / and I want it! I want you, I want warmth, / I don’t want to be alone!" Read Aimee Lowenstern's stunning poem in full here, alongside the work of six other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

"The way your moustache falls over / the corners of your upper mouth / like a flyover. I want to know if it ever / falls into your cup of milk when you drink..." Read @morleyxoxo's poems in full here, alongside the work of six other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

Check out @sebisdrawing's gorgeous piece, "beauty and love," in full on our site, alongside the work of six other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

"I was thinking about the random detached feet that wash up on beaches sometimes, and how some of them are still inside shoes..." Find Lesley Warren's striking prose piece in full here, alongside the work of six other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

"You need to be reminded of barbarity and the outer reaches of deviance." Read Joe Sonnenblick's haunting poem in full here, alongside the work of six other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

"[B]lubbering not / from shock, not pain, / but from losing again / (strapped down this time) / the god-thighed piano / tuner, my month-dead / heart..." Read James Kangas's poignant poem in full here, alongside the work of six other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

"I didn’t lose my virginity / too early. By then it was too late." So concludes our features for Issue #11: OVERPOUR! Read @Jimjakk's poems in full here, alongside the work of six other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue