sapphic outlined — Victoria Garcia

poetry ☆

poetry ☆

the world shakes off

the moon of its moaning.

tries to trace a sapphic outline

and calls each curve a wound,

so i kiss the one i love

between the silence of two trees.

feel for where the river breaks.

it doesn’t matter

if i shave the bark down

to the very ache—

it will never leave.

there are no edges

but a mud pit,

a disrupted fluidity of love

that breaks

like crescents

and ends

in half-moon dialogs

with the self.

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Victoria Garcia is the Editor-in-Chief and founder of the literary Substack Cease and Caesura Lit, which publishes genre-defying literature. Her poetry has appeared in digital collections from Libre Lit, Corporeal Lit, and The Coalition for Digital Narratives, and her chapbook Hamlet Headless in the Middle of Soliloquy was published in Alien Buddha Press on August 4th, 2025.