I wake up to the moon screaming. If I can hear her, then it’s too late. An anklet and laces of blood, my skin shreds. She calls for me, the more I resist, the more it will hurt, so I walk outside and stain each cobblestone black. My moon, I look at you and offer myself. Stitch my skin or […]
The day I told you I loved you, I was wearing a dress made from butterfly wings. Today I wore it again, and saw someone identical to you. I think of the sun as liquid light, and those butterflies as messengers. Their destinies are wrapped between gusts of wind, their wings lead them there. They pass away once they have […]
The world will go on even after you, because it doesn’t care. But it’s not just made of leaves, it is made of people too. And when that day comes, I will return to the soil I call home, I will be reunited with each root and blade of grass. I guess the world doesn’t care, it will go on, […]
I have an evergreen for every person I have ever loved. Even if we have drifted apart, even if I no longer feel that way, I will always care for them. But there are times I want to tear those trees down. Split them in half, count those rings of ruptured, bleeding veins. How long have I been feeling this, […]
Grass scrapes my legs, I see my scars and I remember. I remember falling from the last tree that shed its leaves in winter. I remember you taking off your shoes by the side of the road, they lay there mimicking the last steps you took. I clung to you like ivy on terracotta bricks, maybe I shouldn’t have, maybe […]
Three flies away because you are gone, Three like the month we were both born in. I find myself writing about you more and more. Three like the hour you left, Like the number of months you have been gone, Like the day of the week it all happened. I will never be able to think about anything else but […]
Hanging on by a single thread. All others have been lost to time. They haven’t been replaced, their threads still hang lightly with their absence. Kept away but never donated, I wait just in case I’m needed one last time.
There’s an echo in my lower heart chamber, I say, as I reach for a pen, intending to write my sorrows away, But instead, I bleed words forever I will remember. I am the one it will dismember, I say, trying to think of anything else, but like every day, There’s an echo in my lower heart chamber. They never […]
I want to sew that name on my tongue, it sits there anyway, I call it out in my sleep and taste our sour separation the moment I wake.
Heart. A necklace forever lost at sea With ruffled feathered wings of paper and ink. Thoughts, regrets, drag me to the endless brink Of this deep ocean. I drown, I am free. For freedom is an auburn aspen tree, I climb and face my pain, tear leaves of zinc. It is quick sand where all my limbs can sink, I […]