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Celeste Rita Baker is a middle-aged Black Caribbean woman from the U.S. Virgin Islands ensconced in Harlem, New York. Her book of short stories, Back, Belly and Side, was published by Aqueduct Press in 2015. She can be found at celesteritabaker.com and on Twitter as @tenwest522.


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13 Apr 2026

...fury tongued, we lash the breeze with our foxing song
From my broken streets and crumbling towers; Sterilized my self-haunted hospitals
Every single time, the Skiin™ gave me a rash. I scratched. I scratched so deeply that I clawed through the aug and into my own skin and then I tore out chunks of that too.
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