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Emma Farmer Birkenhead School, Liverpool · United Kingdom Poetry · August 2026
the blood and the stings keep me trapped behind my ribs
i fight for control and start to forget my name
i can feel it practising my signature
it dances through my cells and tilts my organs
like it's trying to stay upright on a shifting floor
until my skin forgets it's outside
and my tears leak back in.
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About the Author Emma Farmer Birkenhead School, Liverpool · United Kingdom

Emma Farmer is a writer at Birkenhead School, in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Her poems turn on identity and memory — the way a name, a shared history, or someone else's past can shape whether we're seen as ourselves at all.

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