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Joanna Valente

Joanna C. Valente is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015) Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016), Sexting Ghosts (Unknown Press, 2018), No(body) (Madhouse Press, 2019), and #Survivor (The Operating System, 2020). They are the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing By Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). Joanna is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, as well as the senior managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine.

Future Wife


In the future, I want everything to be

silver because then at least I’ll feel like

I’ll be part of the future and never old

enough to feel like I’m

undesirable, to be left

for someone else who will also become

me one day.

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