YOU ARE READING carcass Poetry tenderness is a thing we have to be taught © z. t. corley, 2024 #absence #africanamerican #anxiety #beauty #childhood #death #desire #existential #girlhood #grief #loneliness #loss #memory #menstruation #poembook #poemcollection #poetry #poetrycollection #rebirth #religion #surreal #tenderness #transformation #violence #womanhood AUTOBIOGRAPHY 17 6 1 by UNWILTED by UNWILTED Follow Share Post to Your Profile Share via Email Report Story Send Send to Friend Share Post to Your Profile Share via Email Report Story My mother gave birth to me in the ocean.I never learned how to swim.