Although you chase me up the stairs laughing and tickle me as I hide behind my door frightened, your hand up my nightdress, and you send me a Valentine of a man baby holding a heart over his genitals, and he’s blushing and the card is saying, IF YOU CAN’T BE GOOD BE MINE, and…
I sing as your body shuts down, watch the doors of your mind fly off their hinges a white sun pulsing through your eyes, your chest an alembic, gathering you with each breath you suck in, I witness your birth as you die as you drag on your last breath, elated, finally fully alive and…
We are chugging to your death on the panting rhythm of your breath. I crush lavender buds under your nose – you open your mouth like a baby bird. You sleep with eyes wide, gaze turned in. I see into depths without being checked. On day three your eyes rise to the surface. Your lips…
Ahead of me the trunk sways like a coffin down the corridors. My parents heave it up the stairs, drop it onto the dormitory floor. A crater opens between us. Retracing our steps, I see them off at the school entrance – turn back to unpack my loss. Stuff it into drawers under my allotted…
