Vocalizing
a poem by Rebecca Carlisle

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in issue five
Scintillations
My Final Phone Call
Master Of My Fate
Almost Famous Photographers
Bugs
Cubicle Hell
Breaking Out Of My Cocoon
Letters To My Younger Self 
Boundaries & Walls
Surviving Today
Adventures In Chalking
Books That Changed My Life
Declare What You Are
My Most Brave Moment
Masks of Bravery  
Love And God
Moody Girl

poetry
Vocalizing
Bravery
The Imaginary "You"

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My voice is changing
in secret
They all think I have laryngitis
that I'm sick
but my voice isn't changed by illness
I am growing up

I am becoming
an adult woman
a tall female
amazon maiden
lioness

My throat is stretching
preparing itself to roar
to sing
shout at the moon

My cells are restructuring themselves
for what my purpose in life is to be
I have no idea,
but my cells seem to…
apparently I will need to speak
and the words will be new to me
and the sounds quite strange
coming from my own lips

Puberty is a painful process
but oh, what a glorious result
I emerge
complete

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