last night scraped painstakingly from the fissures in my brain scraped like ink from wood-latch boxes with fancy carved roses on the top
chewing apart memories with your nails clenched into my hand I am falling out of love all over again
clicking keys and snapping wrists ripped strings and fractured minds slipping into different facades of distances that felt closer six trembling months so long
touching your palm with a face that isn't real anymore pillow cased fingertips touching cheeks bumping elbows ripple through ponds of tension seething just under the skin and details throb in my temples
I have vanished from the city skyline I am taking back my couch, I am stepping on dried roses pilfering paint from butterfly wings frankly darling sweet pea there were these picnic baskets and sunflowers
bitterly lamenting to everyone but printed on both sides of your business card it says "heartbreaker" and printed on both sides of the fortune cookie it said "not your business, move on move on"
stitching holes in my cheekbones, I haven't got the heart to put up walls haven't got the nerve to break them down still painting you into my sunflowers and I am so wary when I scrape elbows