Pansy Magazine
A queer Substack dedicated to my (Steven Losco) poetry and personal essays. Poetry may be pieces that have been rejected by lit mags or written exclusively for the Substack.
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Optimism (opens the original)
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The Crossing Bridge (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedYellow sunsets into orange. Crisp, sharp air whistles through a rustle of cover, shaking loose rust colored leaves to rest on broken shingles made of its fellows. Autumn sunlight shines its hazy, golden glow through a pocket of siding, where the cruel whisps of cold foretell their later tales of destruction. A bale of fire pops and crackles as a whisper of a whine of a guard rail hinging on the side, guarding the worst from
Bingham Brisbane (opens the original)
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In the biggest, giant “fuck you” to my bipolar, depression, and lupus, I survived Bingham- not only the event but traveling 15+ hours one leg, twice. I not only survived, but thrived and took care of myself when I needed it. I am blessed in ways that I have never thought possible.
The Brisbane Diaries: Unfiltered Emotions of a Few Days (opens the original)
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The below only documents a couple of days of my weeklong trip, and these were resolved pretty much in the days afterwards. These are not pretty, edited thoughts with strong logical steps, but my brain hops around in thinking, much to the chagrin of all my professors trying to understand my thoughts. I think tomorrow I should be able to write a post, not so much summing up, but digesting what I have learned from traveling 15+ hours across the world and participating in a world-class event. Not th
Tomes (opens the original)
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The continuation of the three-line poem found HERE.Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedWhen yellow wrinkles down bursting in the crinkles of the first leaves shed, off I go into the depth to find that perfect leaf, the one written with the secret of life. Full of chlorophyll still only to leave The branch. I set my tomes of leaves on the altar in which I pray for reli
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