Appearance: 25-year-old female, appears older than stated age, dark bags underneath her eyes, wearing wrinkled hospital scrubs, holding empty cup of coffee in her hands. No physical scars. Behavior:…
Category: Poems
Perfection The (Un)Beautiful Lie
There lies my happiness Out of reach, A distant white light High up above the darkness If I can reach that light, I can be happy again After I finish…
In+Out=Now
Breathe In Constantly What if What if What if When it never is And now the now is gone Trapped in an if Stop Everything is going to be…
Enteral Nutrition
Chip-chip-cheree, the triumphant call of a fruitful journey; mother coos, mouth full, to her young. Digesting is too hard for my sister; she waits for the blender, chirp-chirping as it…
Perfectomy
she is skeleton with skin on, spackled love and atomic interactions bursting at the sarcomeres to leave fingerprints on this windowpane called life. and what better way than to learn…
Scrubbed In
Staring down into this vat of steel, a cold, barren pit is eager to be reawakened. Hands are held steadily with fingers extended, bracing to be stripped of life…
The Man in the House
Nothing treaded the dark path, Not a man nor a mouse For there were rumors about the man, The man in the house. One day her bike broke down, And…
Anatomy and Friends
anatomy & friends plantar aponeurosis grounding me; toes wriggling beneath earth that has become unfamiliar replaced by concrete jungles; a spider web of blinding smiles, crow’s feet, one-sided dimples reflecting…
Mourning Flight
AgainI hover in that strange space that exists outside of time.It is 3 am,and the ticking clock on the hospital’s bare wall crawls to halt.We are floating, dimensionless.An insomniac…