My first poem titled ‘The Former Famines’ has been published on Ephemeral Elegies, which details some difficult periods I experienced throughout my early adulthood and beyond.
Here is an excerpt:
There were times when I ate nothing but plumes of poisoned smog for days on end. I’d avoid anything heavy or even meagrely there, to place a mere morsel in my mouth was something too tempting and somehow undignified, something forbidden, leading to: a loss of control, frenzied ingestion, then disgust with myself — reaching for a dose so potent it equated to poison. Continue reading at Ephemeral Elegies...
Lauren M. Hancock Poetry and Prose 
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