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Until They Vanish
Rolling hills that once went on for miles stutter to a stop,interrupted by industry, with slender, skeletal fingertips that wrap around the wild, wide world and snap her struggling throat.Money trickles but it never rains on the deserving,and the children grow weary before they’ve even left their mother’s wombs, because they know they only exist…
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Immunity
I’m not immune to you,to the melody of your shoes on my bedroom floor,couldn’t be more certain that I’m cynical and vulnerable all at once,but I’m just, sort of, going with it,going wherever your rolled eyes and exasperated sighs command. I fall and rise,resisting sleep, then being ravished by it,the same record on repeat,a comforting…
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Her Father Is Dead and Today Is His Birthday
I send best wishes to your ashes,flowers with bowed heads are no comfort,because I feel nothing on this day, every year.There is happiness in the days before,then hangovers,then nothing.An emptiness that is taller than you and I,an endless echo of silence that stalks me from midnight, until the twenty ninth stutters into life,and it’s not…
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Carry You
Sending the seeds of a dandelion towards the sky,I long for the safety of Spring,the early morning breeze, butterflies dancing as the day begins,and your memory is tight in my tarnished hands.I carry you everywhere,like the keys to my car or a sickness in my veins,and for once, you stay,bound never to vanish again.
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Push The Button. Don’t Push The Button.
Down in the depths of the ocean,a man has made a decision,so another pushes a button,and then we’re gone. The air will be hot and white,trains toppling from their rails like toddler’s toys,cars crumpling and colliding as houses slide down into piles of rubble,melting like butter. We’ve gone over this before.War is just child’s play…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 