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callie joseph Aug 2020
to listen to novo amour
to submerge my many
identities convening like bubbles
under the beating of the rain
and let them sink
to the bottom of the sea

to listen to novo amour
and open my soul to the air
red and bruises
like the ones on my knees
i belong on the concrete
or beneath it

to listen to novo amour
and let my hairs matt
twisting and black like the thoughts
raging in my fingertips
and never turn on the shower

to listen to novo amour
to never ever ever leave my room
leave my bed
leave my ceiling
to never stop being sad
and never stop listening
callie joseph Aug 2020
the way my skin bunches like you’re the cold
under your touch too hard
my flesh an anchor to solitude
how my eyes ache
my lips quiver when i see you
you say my body wants you
but all of it wants to be alone
i said no.
callie joseph Jul 2020
i was over the moon
you were over the sea
callie joseph Jul 2020
she
she was love
****** fire
now i’m haunted
by desire
callie joseph Jul 2020
you have drowned my ****** fire
now i'm haunted by your desire
                      are you real?
                                  are you quiet?
                                              are you really "alright"?
this is about a relationship that completely destroyed my sense of trust, intimacy and identity. i felt hounded by desire.
callie joseph Jul 2020
you taught me what it means
to be human
callie joseph Jul 2020
fishing wire twined and strangling
his dark fingers
catch the silver bullet of the sea
old stranger wearing white
casting his line and as
he reels it in bows like a wide
sail in the blunt storm
catch the silver bullet of the sea
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