1. prodigal daughter
bloody cough
great grandmother's
handkerchief
letters, no name,
not mine
i ruin a lot
you can't see
red hands together
prayer. maybe.
not me.
2. menace
burning woman
settle in the wallpaper
your eyes are yellow
again: i cry while
you paint over me -
this house is as haunted as me.
3. flight of the wolves
her eyes
slide into mine
until eventually
the moon takes me by
the hand
we are running
against ourselves
and bleeding stars
fading as nothing
but hungry dogs
into the night
4. ancient light
you have never
wanted touch
like this
a mysterious something
is in the air
someone else's sun
swallowed whole
fire has his hand in my mouth
i am screaming.
5. town fair memory
my lover in a dream
finds me by the craft table
it's sun down
tiptoes around my adolescence
he knows he is not my love.
i lay on the trembling blacktop
with my friends. the sky is pink
but not as warm as us, we can see
stars from here: we're not waking up
from today
his name
still
eludes me
YOU ARE READING
soft light
Poetryi just want to feel okay again. poems written circa 2017-2020. what a wacky time to exist. if a lot of these seem unhinged it's probably because most of them were written while i was in a very abusive relationship. tw for occasional themes of addict...
