i’ve got, “i miss you” carved over and over again on my sternum. skin raised and red, but it’ll dull down to a scar. just like the ones on your forearms that i saw when it was just you ...

god carries a honey-soaked stake w… and his lovers scream at me to sto… to let him sink it into my chest,…

he kissed along my scars and asked… i tangled my fingers in his hair a…

i love you and isn’t that it? isn’t that a slur? to say i love you, when your father spilled that

everything is muffled and clean wh… i have bathed in dust and soil, an… i lay on your cool kitchen tile an… a constant reminder that i’m here,… but now with me here there is mud…

i’m building sentences like lego w… but they just aren’t clicking. i’m trying to find just one way, t… the mindfuck i’m going through. it’s not clicking in their brains,

sometimes i think, when i’m sitting here doing jacksh… that you are only here with me, sticking it out, cause you’re hoping i’ll be someon…

i’m asking you to sunbake me, politely. i want to melt into the cracks, like earth-ending dinosaur juice.

i hope you know that you’re still my favorite hiding place and through it all, you’re still my favorite secret keeper

trying not to cry in the holiday i… my mama said something mean again

my ma stuck that knife in me straight down to the hilt. she treated the knife like a nail, and treated her fist like a hammer… i pulled it out, bit by bit,

do you love me, genuinely? don’t scoff and say, “yes, of cour… think about it for a minute. do you love me? when i’m crying like we’ve got roo…

there’s something about flowers an… you ask someone why they pick flow… “because they’re pretty.” you ask someone why they pull weed… “because they’re ugly.”

she carves her name in my thigh wi… i let her, looking down at her fro… while she sits there on her knees… i tell her i love her and she just… she’s known because she always kno…

there’s something so forgiving in being angry on behalf of a chil… who no one was angry for.