elaenor-aisling
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27 / F / American
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Today, I sold the guitar we bought together
Here, I do not need to coax the sound— / No more tremulous plucks, bated breath, / Muting my voice as it slips from my throat
10
Aug 8, 2022
They say my voice sounds like longing
Longing is trammeled in my throat / Oh the honeyed years / Before I knew what to miss,
17
Jul 25, 2022
When your name is said for the last time
The cliff’s monumental resolve / Plucks the sustained note of its rise / over the wayward valley,
49
Jul 15, 2022
Signposts
Signposts / The signposts at the end of her life / Swam in watery fades
29
Jul 15, 2022
Omnia - Morrigan
I don’t, don't speak human / when blue comes down to talk / in the clogged old crannies of the night
@Ayesha
52
Apr 13, 2022
Tuesday
Tuesday: a squalling jolt of surprise sorrow / And I am holding a flood behind my lips / Mouth pressed to the leak,
16
Jan 3, 2022
Keen for the Old Year
Beneath a banshee cloak fog / The dying year shifts in her harrowed sleep / tussock hair splayed across December
13
Dec 25, 2021
Aftermath
I can only say I miss you in so many ways. / My syllables plunge like suicides / Into the space between us
62
Dec 21, 2021
Peter [Last Night in Capernaum]
In the night / Memories drift like the hair of a drowned man / The waves a callous lullaby
25
Dec 5, 2021
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