Paper Town
About Dehlia Ackley
Dehlia Ackley is a poet living in Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in december Magazine and JerkPoet.
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Mine trauma like coal.
When you were born,
Mom cussed the nurses.
At a gallery in SoHo, a large screen TV beams a live feed of an operating room in Midtown where the artist’s face will be surgically altered to give her the Mona Lisa’s big brow. She once displayed her menstruating…