Boxes of bones and cartilage holding everything I have ever owned. They’re never emptied, and my belongings have now calcified. Yet I spend my nights looking through them, at everything that helped shape me. But before I can dismember it and dig one of my many hearts out, someone calls my name and I snap back to reality. I have […]
Jane awoke exactly ten minutes before her alarm rung, meaning it was now ten to five a.m. Her suitcase was packed, and her clothes for the day were neatly folded on her bedside table, along with the book she was currently reading. All Jane had to do was get dressed, lock up, and get in the cab. She could picture […]
I waited everyday for her, even if our encounters lasted mere seconds. Four o’ clock would come, and I would be there, waiting. Warmth would fill up the room, and I would try to trap the light, to keep her with me and prevent her from leaving. It never worked. The sun would set anyway, leaving me waiting on my […]
My heart moves within my ribcage, making its way towards the surface, until it has reached the very first layer of flesh, mere centimetres from the skin that separates it from my chest. It lets out a gasp, finally breathing once it has arrived at the edge of my body. My blood runs. My back has been drained from it, […]
When my heart was overflowing with secrets, so much that I couldn’t speak without spilling water and choking on heartstrings, you noticed and let me pour some of my life’s waves into yours. A river was created, my heart is its source and it flows into your veins.
Honeymoons and stars of milk, The sun kisses her on the nose and like windflowers, freckles bloomed, marking a path where a ray of light had previously laid. They are to skin what stars are to the skies. Moss is to stone what skin is to the bones. She has a name engraved in her heart chambers, One that is […]
There’s something about it that makes me restless. I’ve never had a sleepless night in winter. I buried my heart half a year ago, Between ice and soil, Time and life. Now a dove has flown to my window and brought me a heartstring. Yours. I wear it around my wrist as a keepsake.
August meant a blooming flower, June was every blossom on the earth. She was a tidal wave of petals, She was every falling autumnal leaf. Hyacinths sprouted from the blood of a fallen lover, Rose was the symbol of the feeling itself. A river flowed to the heart of the world, An Ocean submerged it. She surrounded it, Protected it. […]
Bone-like feathers tumble from a pair of wings, the hollow shoulderblades of a fallen angel. Lungs are filled by the absence of a breath, Your soul is peeled from your body as if it were honey. The fall is the beginning, a head is crowned by a shattered halo of cartilage and carnations. Roses cushion your fall at first, But […]
Rain pooled at the bottom of my heart, It dripped and rolled down to my fingers. Sometimes, I feel like I’ll float away, On other days my limbs are an oak tree’s roots. I ask myself how long this will last, Days are endless, years mere seconds. Rain surrounds me all the time, I’m covered in it, I don’t even […]