• make me

    don’t blend your brush over me; don’t pull those silvery dandelions over my lines; i cannot let these fingers uncurl from the knife’s edge; do not make me unmake me, it’s all that holds true; the edge is where my teeth smiles and lips spill love, maybe it’s true for you too, the way you…

  • electric

    starve these senses, thin out this skin, stretch out the hair on my head; let all the ends of my nerves shiver electric; veins like sickness bulging, crisscrossing over paleness, draw me out before it all fills in you, 

  • undivide

    why does these lies sound like truth; truth like lies, these whispers through the moonless window, tumbling dark and light cut through Reason; i can’t press the dividing line; spider webs my dreams, unspooling quicker than these three primary shades can take,

  • unscale

    your hands had caked mud and scales on my face, hair; i wonder why, i can’t tell even now if it’s to protect or to vilify; i am not sure why i let you; i spend nights unscaling skin with silver rings under moonshine, and wonder, why, why,

  • silk

    fold me like silk between your fingers; unfold me, and refold my knees pressed to my forehead, arms wrapped, unwrapped, fingers twined, untwined, straighten my folds, and fold again; as many times as you wish, pull me through your hands and snap me in the wind,

  • ignites

    there must be a price for the madness that pushes a girl’s hand to claw through earth, stick and hands, clawing clods of earth; repeatedly, repeatedly, taken, something taken—only the touch of deathless ignites the Night,

  • kept

    i am not willing to go against the grain; i cannot; the promise has been sprung open, and the First word must be kept, even if i must lose you, i cannot lose this—the breath of my being—and even if i will it, i cannot abandon it, because from it, i can be of you,

  • knees

    you have gathered my hair, roped it around your fist and have pushed me without warning into your waters that spill from your hips; and you said breathe; how could i? you asked me to willingly drown, repeatedly, and yet love slips through your lips; i could hear no lies, and everytime, i drop to…

  • must

    she says, strip, descend, you must let the winds whip; descend she says, while she held my hand in-step with my feet, she says descend, and i must, she will tear apart anything i hold in my hands, even you, even you,

  • raining

    i saw your eyes, i saw the slant of your smile away; i saw the tilt of your neck, all the angles; away; i begged for my eyes to be taken away, the door opens and sand piles on the carpet; hot winds; dunes, it’s raining in the desert,