Locked

I probably ought not but I do. Search for the stone, carcass, leaf, That will sink into the sediment of me. To be locked inside, encased, entombed. Compressed by all above yet held by all below. Tiny groans and fragmentations. They belong to the mantle of me now. And will forever more. Until – I… Continue reading Locked

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Verisimilitude

Show them your wounds. Show them your scars. Show them your rusting prison bars. All they will see. And all they will know. Their own walled garden where roses grow. There may be thorns. And velvet petals. Perfumes that float amongst the nettles. One to protect. And one to fast hold. For there is no… Continue reading Verisimilitude

Bleed

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And now. They want me to paint my words. ‘Take a seat.’ I’m not supposed to know. That this room is empty. ‘Tell me what brought you here.’ Not you. She does not know that she holds her mouth tight. Or why. That it twists like old rope as she grapples. Leaning forward? Don’t do… Continue reading Bleed

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