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Don’t Come Back
You break me over your knee, splintering my soul as you say that I am the best beauty you’ve ever held in your arms, your harmful arms, like bombs on my landscape, long strikes across my spine, across the apples of my cheeks. I make eyes at a monster, across the darkened car, and all…
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Flashback – Here’s To The Kids Who Wear Purple
You taught me to love, showing me how to put familiar fondness in the single fondant fancy I would find, hiding in my lunch box, alongside salad sandwiches, that tasted of “Have a good day.” “Come home safe.” “You are the thing I have loved most, in this wild, wide world.” I watched you wash…
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Tasting A Trader
I danced and drank with somebody’s daughter, as the rich district of my town went down in flames. Light lined the streets and reflected off of her eyes, and I was lightheaded, lost in the idea that a new world was about to start, because she has started to undress me, and wealth spilled into…
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Flashback – R+E
Scratch your fever into the forest. Parted from the heart she longed for, settling for cold concrete, soft but sombre surroundings, the forest, now a pessimistic plank will understand. She will know the truth, that he was cute, the moment you met him. She will know that you still loved him, even when his face,…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 