46. Family
Kenophobia she shudders at the empty spaces between organs used for
Anthropomancy. Damage the memories, forget forgetfulness, or embrace
Lachrymiform consciences, she can't decide; there are double
Yoghs ready on her lips, she is the yashiki of naissant thought.
Narcohypnia seizes her skin.
Lambent, she flows incandescently from dusk to day. She is the
Eidetic for diviners, and the effulge or effluvium of plummeting
Aerolites. When the rain finally breaks through, she will burn like
Hapaxanthous flowers revealing haematic petals.
Ratite ancestry colors her past, useless feathers on her
Halitus, ascending carbon di
65. HORROR
he looks at the wall,
peeling away layers of plaster and
drywall with those apocalyptic eyes.
when we lay alone beneath
distant planets and expiring stars
and a milky way choked with sin,
he whispers to the ghosts
gliding between the trees, his
syllables their only guide back to
beating hearts, my trembling fear our only
anchor to earth or else
maybe we'd just float away into grave
orbits.
sometimes when he touches me
it's as if unseeable dimensions are kissing
my nails and their song bleeds into my own
world, only when reality is blotted out by
music or locked. Doors.
i pretend he's the gatekeeper
and demons a
81. PEN AND PAPER
(Lead poisoning is in
your veins to the
extreme) your skin
is composed of infinite
glyphs, five million
for every cell, until you
delve into your swollen
organs, kidney, liver, lungs,
and there is no way to
number the script that
fills their tissue.
Your origami heart
is pumped by calligraphy
as the elegant word form
overtakes your hemoglobin,
ink running th
I DEFY THE UNIVERSE
1. no, I will not SUCCUMB TO GRAVITY
i will fly without wings,
run with my feet into
perpetual darkness
and fish with my imagination
from a perch among the clouds.
2. no, I will not FALL INTO SLUMBER
i will dream while awake and
conquer the night,
because the day is short,
life is long,
and you can pull the plug
on the light, but nothing fuels me.
3. no, I will not BEG FOR BREATH
emotions can fill my lungs
and feathers escape my lips
until oxygen is wasted
on poisoning
and birds come flying fr
you're just another face, really.
one that smiles a lot.
daydreams a lot.
laughs a lot.
maybe coming time will
forget you. maybe the world will
lose you. but despite that, none of us will.
you write sometimes.
and you draw sometimes.
you cry butterfly tears sometimes.
because you're human. mostly you love alltimes.
often in dusty recesses i hide my heart.
but your fingers clutch my heart
as if they've always
held it. always.
and of secrets.
in your ears, i whisper secrets.
you are always there to sooth my darkest fears.
because you're not just human. you're my confidante.
in life we dance
in the dark with the others.
in t
the phantom wind blows me there to where only butterflies dare tread, and i exhale those butterflies on soft sighs, their wings spilling from my eyes like teardrops. they don't burn. they caress my cheeks and tickle my fingers as i reach out to grab them, evading my grasp like your shadow when you try to catch it, and they soak my skin quicker than any summer rain
or like the seaspray as the heaving ocean slams against the rocks and stretches its skeletal fingers to snatch me away. its cold, dead touch staining me wet. it snatches away the butterfly wings instead and leaves me alone.
the phantom wind guides me there to where not even butter
Words written on my skin
Everything I've ever heard
Your lies
Her promises
His jokes
Their anger
My body is the stone tablet
The palest parchment
Everyone's words the chisel
Dark prophecy inked into
a l a b a s t e r
Down my spine
Across my wrists
Drowning in my eyes
Lungs drowning in them
Scorn, contempt, hate, anger
Love, adoration, friendship
Displayed for the world to see
Or for me to remember?
There came a day
When days meant nothing,
Heartbeats equaled hours,
Seconds melted into minutes,
And minutes hardened into years.
There came a year
When years meant nothing,
Time progressed in uneven pulses,
Throbbing to the beat of a screaming storm,
And logic fought its way out of Time
There came a breath
After days meant nothing
And years meant nothing,
When the calendar sat awake
Through the night, but I forget
Day and night mean nothing,
And he just couldn't take it
For another day
Because Time meant nothing
But it meant everything to him!
There came an ending
When Time and the calendar
Found each other
In the endl
4 Mouth Shut
He taped your mouth shut
Filled your head with little
LIES
Blurred the line of truth
With twisted words and broken
PROMISES
Your hands are free but you
Don't rip away the tape
Maybe falsities are safer than
TRUTH
When he's long gone, you'll still
Lay there with your mouth taped
SHUT
Believing every word he ever spoke
Sick, sick, sick