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
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
The summer spent with bloody knuckles There was something heavy about th Or maybe it was the way it didn’t I wear October on my forearms lik That I can not take off until it I have finished the words that tri 2
Your hands were a hurricane Someone once told me I had thunde Like a child, I let you, burn me. I never did tell you how I felt. I know from the way you turned you 1
When we were stars You found me when I was sick at h but now I am human Please find me now, For I am in a different universe. It took me an entire lifetime,
Take it all I carried you under my skin, I grew, I changed, I shed my skin, But you never changed, you never l 1
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
I forgive you I stood with my back to the mouth Leaving for you must have been eas Being loved isn’t always a good th I forgive you, for what it’s worth I forgive your silent tongue, your 1
(Your laughter will always be in the back of my throat) He held his knuckles against his s My mother told me ever since he le there has been a hurricane inside She asked me why I thought love f My mother drove me to the train st 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
When I miss you The trees were blooming around me A snake stealing my life for its s Wrapped tightly around my jugular; Your silence sounded a little bit The slam of the door cutting again 1
Lioness Some have said that I am a lion, My mouth holds worlds that can pie oceans, that feel like home. Some have said that I am a Sunday 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
Searching for God between my bones She woke up with you in her bones, I still feel you in my bones god d on your hands as they held mine, a The roads under your veins held st I’m running home to the same thing 1 1
Pastel rivers Living inside a kaleidoscope ribca Listening to the sound of my own voice I hear thunder crackling inside my hands hold oceans, 1
The feelings they never made words for The cold winter night buried itsel the feelings they never made words I always wondered, every time I l I then remembered with an ache in that your mouth always tasted of t 4
Run away I think you could collapse against your winded breath seeping into my becoming my own. I think you could run away from ho but you would always find your sha 4
My mouth is a hurricane These walls feel so heavy around m The wind wrapped her hands around Goodbye has leaked from my tongue My mouth, is a hurricane, I am trying to keep calm. 1 1
Never let you go Thirteen years I’ve lived with you in my body, thirteen years you’ve grown inside my bones like and made a garden of stars inside 1
Jupiters hands On the other side of the sky lives On the other side of your soul liv I can’t remember, the last time I I ripped open my hands spilling ga the linoleum of my skin spread bar 1 1
I'm just a child Your eighteenth year, is your scariest year. It’s the year of change, It’s the year of goodbyes, It’s the year that you shed your c 2
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
