Time It was a clean break of the neck, I know time like the life lines on I know time because I’ve counted, I know time, like the lump that sl I know time, like the minutes that 1
Anywhere but here I took off my skin and I handed i [you said you only wanted me for w you wouldn’t take it so I stitched but It no longer fits the same. I mouthed the word stay across you 1
Baby teeth Be crumbled, they said. It’s okay [my father had copper hands and I These people they’ll look for you, The water flows in front of me lik My fathers words sit in me like th 1
Your firecracker empty Will you still love me when my bon I will open my chest I will open my chest so that it sw maybe then I can feel whole again. Silver hands on my spine, your fir 1
Dear yesterday[till I see you some day] Dear one day, My hips are turning into tidal wav Dear yesterday, I found your sweater behind my bed I’ve yet to tell you how your abse 1 1
Shadow There will be days where your ches because you can’t feel anything be empty. There will be days where you feel like you’re a paper doll, lying on 1
Beneath blue skin (Until then) You held my hands when I was too All I knew was that I liked the w You watched me grow, and you grew Like I was a night sky you filled When people asked for my name I f 1
Daughter Sitting on the palms of my wrinkle Swimming in the cracks between my Spinning, below the sinking sky in There you are. The lines on my palms hold years 1 1
When I lost you White noise, bleeding through the I am not ready, I am not ready to let you go. Still she pulled, she pulled you a The ocean moving under my body 1
What they don't teach you in school Blue skin tapered to the backs of The winds fingers wrapped around t I heard the wildflowers beneath yo I dreamt of your skin like freckle my voice cracked like sparklers on 1
I have forgotten where home is I said I couldn’t hold your words The night was full of skinned knuc meandering voices and the sound of full of shallow breaths, of “I don This town used to hold kings and q 1
19 months I saw you for the first time in 19 I searched everywhere for you, exc maybe I did not want to find you, maybe I did not want to know how m right here. 1 1
Tongue tied sky Tongue tied lava sky. Teeth scraping against heavy mouth Clouds wrapped around waists, waists wrapped around hands, waists curved, 1
Exposure When I was fifteen, I realized that I held the sky in I looked out my window at the tree moving faster than my hands could the feelings they left me with; 2
This is not what courage looks like This past October I have found th This past October I have found th I still have ashes on my spine whe the last night you ever burned me. This past October I have learned 3
There were sharks in our mouths There were sharks in our mouths This is what November tasted of; Blood and not knowing you were an Pulling out stitches, maybe if I You told me you were leaving and 1
Dear June When June falls down around your Wash the abandonment from your hai Grab fistfuls of language you can Wrap your tongue around any boy’s It doesn’t matter if his mouth tas 1
Emptiness and crooked spines It’s been two years since I’ve le I’ve allowed your dirty memory to My mother asked me why I don’t dr I told her that it tastes like you I started singing again, 2
Autumn It was autumn and my skin had fall My mouth left with nothing but a t to make you stay. It was autumn and my body lay rest I pretended it were a pile of yell 2
My name They told me not to talk so much, they told me, to take the ocean that moves insid When I touch the corners of my mo I left all these people where I f 1
Homesick Most people are born homesick. They leave the home their mothers Most of us are born homesick. But then we hear our parents carve We hear their voices fuse together 2
Ruins Be crumbled, they said. It’s okay [my father had copper hands and I These people they’ll look for you, The water flows in front of me lik My fathers words sit in me like th 1
I hope one day I will outgrow you So many misconceptions of boys wit I spent the past three nights list trying to scrape your name out of I hope one day I will outgrow my the body everyone says looks just 1 1
