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The Raven
My raven couldn’t wait a second more, ignoring my door, rapping on my insecure mind, finding routes inside, tearing out the safe affirmations I had acquired, since he last came knocking. Darkness there and nothing more, after the raven was done, ripping down the reminders I’d left, all across my life, of the ways I…
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You Make Me Want To Paint My Nails In Pretty Colours
Pick out a pretty colour, paint my nails while I’m docile, Aphrodite whispers up above us, erstwhile lovers, that became something more. My soul is yours, reborn in the July sun, when it set, resetting me, pulling me from the purified dirt, sleeping until it was safe, onwards, to September, when you crossed my path,…
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New Moon Rituals
I set fire to my past, while the new moon slept around my shoulders. Stars set their eyes upon me, weeping with my brown eyes, steeped in sympathy, seeing the world turn, fate turning with it. I embrace embers, cherry red, wrapped around me, burning and cleansing, falling to firm concrete, finding my way to…
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For the first time in my life, I am really happy.
Drowning just a little, when the night comes down on me, due on stage in fifteen, downing drinks, injecting dreams. My veins have always been clean, but my soul would beg to differ. I’ve seen the demons, hanging on the arms of my reflection, as I try to look past the mirror and avoid my…
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Today Isn’t Unlucky, and Neither Am I
Ink, irreversible, rewriting the world, then living inside of my letters. At dawn, I whisper sweetness to the universe, paths of gold stick to my shoes, my soul ascending, while my body is tethered to the ground. Repeating requests, watching them unravel, then wrap around me, until I am complete. I watch the universe fall…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 