My dearest heart: I need you to slow down. As I breathe in once through my nose, and twice out my mouth I can’t help but let my imagination get away with me and the constant anxiety is causing my chest to parade in ways I’ve only known a handful of times: handful like the number […]
Minutes tick by, and then they turn into hours. I lie on my bed feeling my naked skin cooling down one degree per tick, tick, tick. Eventually: my skin is ice to the touch, even if it’s not cold outside. Hunger grips my stomach, then my heart, my head. My brain throws irrational accusations that […]
Since that time, when I drowned you unintentionally in myself, only because I wanted myself to drown in you and then your heart went missing, forever, since that time, “distance makes the heart grow fonder” is my new truth. I say it again, then, to him. “Like I care,” says he. I stamp my foot, […]
My heart with her bandaged appendages; a foot, ground off at the tarsals, phalanges cut short and knuckles bared – sickly gray and orange bones chopped away by love’s sharp bite. She creeps, placing trust in the ribcage to trap her ever in safety not wont to find red skies again transient pleasure is never […]
**I wrote the last half of this poem last night, and then the first half this morning. It was an odd chronology, but I like what it’s become. I just had a discouraging conversation that only proved what I was feeling (I didn’t need the proof, I already knew it was true) so, I thought […]
