"intaglio madonna", Kemlyn Tan Bappe

CW:​ prostitution, self-harm, religion, Christianity, graphic imagery, misogyny

Image description: This is an image of a twin cinema pome with a black and white image of a woman’s face in the middle. On the left side of the image, the poem reads like the hymn ‘Ave Maria’ in latin while on the right side, the author has added he…

Image description: This is an image of a twin cinema pome with a black and white image of a woman’s face in the middle. On the left side of the image, the poem reads like the hymn ‘Ave Maria’ in latin while on the right side, the author has added her own stanza.

/ “Do I dare paint words, spin pictures, or am I a rat repairing a pumpkin?” Kemlyn Tan Bappe is a writer, spoken word and visual artist, Singapore born, living in Phoenix, Arizona.


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