i don't want each month to
become a benchmark
i can already feel
myself like a steel stiletto
scrawling each day off
anxiously waiting for time
to heal when it's only been
the tick of a metronome to
Scriabin's best
holding the slick undone
slivers of myself together
as wet kindling, an offering
that I hardly know how to give.
Jan 6, 2018
Jan 6, 2018 at 9:03 PM UTC
i don't want each month to
become a benchmark
i can already feel
myself like a steel stiletto
scrawling each day off
anxiously waiting for time
to heal when it's only been
the tick of a metronome to
Scriabin's best
holding the slick undone
slivers of myself together
as wet kindling, an offering
that I hardly know how to give.
(c) Brooke Otto 2017
6th.
