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 Mar 2020 Artemis
anna
...
 Mar 2020 Artemis
anna
...
Carnations are red
Violets are blue
I’m a rainbow kid
Hope you are one too.
 Mar 2020 Artemis
anna
She and I reside together.
No less but a stranger,
Clinging to the phantom
Of her eldest daughter.

He’s away, excuses many
“Making a life for you.”
My life falls apart and
Where are you?

Charybdis swallowed them
Long ago.
No longer do I know
Where, who, what they are.

Fungi spread images
Tell tales of different lives,
Upturned curves and fancy lights
All that are faded lies.

Gone;
Not with the wind but
The last Haley’s comet.
Light years away.

Us three strangers.
With carved stone smiles
Breaking out sometimes
Beginning our unceasing mimes.
We aren’t broken, but we could be.
 Mar 2020 Artemis
anna
Queer cheer
 Mar 2020 Artemis
anna
We are here ,
We are queer
We’ll  kick that
Homophobic rear.
🏳️‍🌈
An improvisation on the pride slogan.
 Mar 2020 Artemis
anna
Dying out in dreams
Living another nightmare
Anxiety screams
These unlettered fears
A cosmic scare.
Will you ever shut down? Had to ask.
 Mar 2020 Artemis
Yesenia
her
face wets
with tears
of long
forgotten
Shadows.

they cling
to her soft
wounds  
like a chained
ancestor.

she
cries a deep
cry.

as she releases them from
the weight of
her dark depths.

they dance down the
memory of her
tears for
at last she
makes them
free.
 Mar 2020 Artemis
Lexie
Bait
 Mar 2020 Artemis
Lexie
I am the fool
Who bites
Into the same poisoned apple
 Mar 2020 Artemis
anna
See my smiles
 Mar 2020 Artemis
anna
See my smiles
Believe my lies
Check my arms
Not my thighs.
Trying not to fall;
 Mar 2020 Artemis
Cayley Raven
Rain
 Mar 2020 Artemis
Cayley Raven
On a rainy day
she tucks herself in,
lying on a pillow
made out of tears.
...
As the heavy raindrops
fall on her skin,
on a rainy day,
she barely sleeps.
...
Every time she does,
she wakes full of shame
...
and then she comes to realize
that rain is her name.
When it rains, it pours.

Also, reviews appreciated.
 Mar 2020 Artemis
anna
Move my world
Make me and
Unmake me
Light up the grey of
My long abandoned
Heart


Show me
I’m still
Human
I’m still alive;
Changes but not quite so changed. But then again, who said it had to make sense?

— The End —