your tongue is impossibly soft wrapped around the silk and syllables of our mother tongue;
so too does the pale expanse of your skin run unblemished like the unceasing current of a river in spring,
beautiful as carelessly thrown precipitate coloured iridescent by the sun-
so too should the warm flush of life spread across your shoulders, your cheeks, your lips, all places i daren't indulge in even in my wildest fantasies-
the curve of your shoulder and the slim line of your waist might have been tailored, woven from storm clouds and snowfall and aurorae; only divinity could have threaded the infinitesimal delicately sharp gaze you cast upon my prostrate form--
you tasted like mulberry silk on my tongue as i dragged my attention across your lap, nose buried in fields of lavender and jasmine,
you slide fingers into my hair, press your knees into my ribs, i am holding an angel, and i have not known pleasure greater than this
Sep 18, 2025
Sep 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM UTC
sometimes the cat chases the sparrow through the long grass as the sun sets and the air cools with blood rushing hot and the sparrow's wings are broken and the cat is smiling and the sparrow is trying to run on talons not built for that sort of movement and the cat is telling the sparrow that some of us are just biologically superior and honestly prey should just roll over and submit all while walking at a leisurely pace and the sparrow wheezes a breath maybe its ribs have been crushed maybe the cat is feeling playful and the sparrow says i know you like the chase and the cat says my darling this is hardly a chase for me and the sparrow says then come and take me and the cat does
Sep 3, 2025
Sep 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM UTC
we agree too much, talk too much;
your eyes are so dark you can only see the iris
if you're me; my alice's idiolect is
mine too, i cannot delineate the two
of us, because
when you pressed our faces
together i secretly prayed that god
would smite us.
and they would only
find one body having arc welded our
skeletons and flesh and blood
together in a congealed puddle at
3500 degrees celcius
and i hoped they wouldn't be able
to identify the body. that it could
be just us in a heaven of our
own making--
don't indulge me, i can't keep this
up, i think that the lines between us
should stay solid but your hands
are so warm -- despite the fact that
we both have bad circulation; we've made
the mistake to curl up together, press
my icy hands to your heart, sparking
like a piston engine, like the clattering
of the cylinders that fire
off my oxytocin receptors
but please, i need to remember
the rules, i need to remember
the rules, i need to remember
you -- i need to remember the
rhythm of your jazz-step
heart; just one more time,
i'll memorise a beat like fingernails
skittering on cold cold glass
just one more time, just this time
before i go, and
i promise next time i'll be better
and i'll stick to the rules
Aug 23, 2025
Aug 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM UTC
we talk about current affairs with swollen mouths, with mirrored hands, palm flat, fingers that touch on a plane// we agree too much, i think it messes with my sense of familiarity; there is both heartache and resolution in the epicanthic fold of your eyes// i can't help but look like a moth might return to the flame; unable to meet your eyes like the coward i am; facsimile of equal exchange-- but i know you can give, and give, and give, and i want, i want, i want, i want, i want, i want//
Aug 23, 2025
Aug 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM UTC
WHEN I CUPPED YOUR FACE AND SPILLED INTO YOU
YOU SAID I TASTED EXACTLY AS YOU THOUGHT I WOULD
I ASKED WHAT YOU THOUGHT DIVINITY MIGHT BE
YOU REPLIED LIKE FLESH BETWEEN YOUR TEETH
AND BLOOD SPILLING DOWN YOUR CHIN
GOD EXISTS BETWEEN THE CLAVICLES AND THE SCAPULA
OLDER BROTHERS ARE MADE ONLY TO FULFILL THE STRANGE APPETITE OF A YOUNGER SISTER
SOMEWHERE IN A PLACE THAT DOES NOT CONCERN YOU
A COLLARED DOG BITES UNTIL IT BLEEDS
YOU MIGHT WONDER IF IT'S A RITUAL
I'D CALL IT CONSUMPTION
Apr 26, 2025
Apr 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM UTC
you keep me on a tight leash
Apr 19, 2025
Apr 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM UTC
you know, god doesn't love people like us.
that's fine, because happiness has to be fought for. i don't like god anyway. can't hold anyone else higher than you.
me neither. i think you complete me. only you and i will know our bodies before the chrysalis. the intimacy of a secret only we are privy to. a journey we undertake hand in hand.
we were made for each other, then. i'd kiss you in every universe. i hope i dream of us together every night that we're apart.
Apr 19, 2025
Apr 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM UTC
ambition is an apparition of the most beautiful woman you have ever seen in your life. she does not text you back. sometimes you see her in the mirror. in your braided hair.
wounds are soft pink after the heat of steam and a night's sleep. this is the same shade you see in the flowers that grow outside your bedroom window. the warm flush of life.
your soft underbelly is milky white, your face is tan with sun, and you search for whitening creams in a korean grocery store near your house. freckles line the the horizon like stars you drew on her face.
dostoyevsky says that a man must work to be worthy of his own suffering. you don't like suffering, but you like the way blood feels on your tongue, the burn of muscles after exertion, skin being peeled back.
your body is out of your reach most of the time. helium party balloons with strings cut short. needles in your thighs. an iv in your elbow. you don't know how to inject yourself properly so it falls on your roommate.
your only friend is a razor blade, but she doesn't like you enough to reply. nights pass without you noticing because the blinds are always shut. she won't kiss your face anymore, only your arms.
Nov 7, 2024
Nov 7, 2024 at 5:07 AM UTC
love hurts
Oct 5, 2024
Oct 5, 2024 at 11:52 AM UTC
next to you i can't breathe
always a shell of a person
a ghost in the machine
gutted on the fishing hook
of your renaissance taste
pixel gore painted
on the sidewalk in pink
and lavender blue
gold thrown up by a
woodchipper stomach
tumors kissing a
washing machine heart
Oct 5, 2024
Oct 5, 2024 at 9:12 AM UTC