Advertisement
Child, sever those circuits. Fray those wires with your boxcutter teeth. You know, molars live on long after the fire dies. When I was small, I used to hide sparklers in my mouth, coughing up smoke like a car pipe or an estranged cousin. You don’t flicker like I did. I scar, you flux. You […]
I know what I’ve seen of blood & death—what the night forgets to cover in its shadows; what part of paradise a bullet undresses before the body‚ before stealing light from its eyes. What was asked is, are you healing or still hurting? I don’t know what you’re looking for in me but […]
word for word pound for pound your name is the heaviest of your foibles. that the heart fails is no surprise, each thing has its end; that you chose to fail mine is. then to steal a dead woman’s self, you should be afraid of the haunting but we are all our […]
In the pre-apocalypse, my sister finds herself driving her car across the country alone with the tornadoes and I can hear the wind from here. She is fine, but I am—helpless—adding roads to her map and water-bodies, sometimes towers which hide wizards, and portals in which we all come undone, those are for later, mostly, […]
I realize now that our experiment was great water Into which I was to dissolve, my cells’ unlocked membranes Giving me the lie as I grasp at old bonds of matter, As movement boils from my stretched meat, as thought boils from my brains. Unbearable brightness of the other falling debris Closer to event […]
Tell me true, friends: how often have you thought of Captain Hook as a disabled man? -Amanda Leduc in the sea-tilt sway of my bed, i exhale, starbound. with a fistful of childhood i witness in technicolor, the performance of the boy the ship the hook the tick tock tick tock tic Neck to […]
do not fall in love. i apologize for the straightforward directive but it must be said. when you arrive there will be a woman, waiting, skin patched and cross-hatched, salt piles dissolving / becoming / sublimating into being. she will be beautiful / monstrous / material. hair tangles of seaweed, living / writhing […]
Data is not an element that has ever been bloodless. Ranunculus aquatilis and radium. One has petals that are pale in vases and reflect moonlight the other walks in empty spaces, and footprints glow behind it. Marie Curie was poisoned by her blood. She kept radium in her pocket it bit her with […]
You tuck the past into your bones, a kindling of ruin and rain, a hollow that rings in the ocean of your heart, fear skipping up your spine, punctuated by the ghost of every broken promise— you say, some things break, and how could brokenness be beautiful? But here is the lesson of stained […]
Classic mum-in-law she was, Ma Grendl: mood scorpio, wirehaired, snagged in the trap of always having been a loving much- beloved mum, no more—suddenly stuck on the wrong side of the story: Beast. Creeping through Hero’s brackish fits & tweets, she’s damp of neck, bent of knee, tarsals swollen thick as trees. The They […]
Advertisement