Wednesday, 30 September 2026

Heart Doesn't Beat, It Flutters Indeterminately (Reader's Emphasis Their Own)

 


This is a combination of two poems, so it sort of is like A Day In The Life by the Beatles.

This is... Heart Doesn't Beat, It Flutters Indeterminately (Reader's Emphasis Their Own)

-Heart Doesn't Beat, It Flutters Indeterminately-
My heart doesn't beat, it flutters indeterminately.
My heart was broke, you see, utterly.
It took the parts of seven hearts to repair it.
To the state it is now in, inside me.
You were writing while I stayed in your room.
You wrote the book on me. It read it like it was spirit writing.
It was an origin story.
And you'd ripped the last page out.
Like a map without a cross, or drug without prescription.
A messiah without a crucifix transfixion.
I am having to be my own resurrection. Piece by piece.
[Swirling segueing energy] 
-Reader's Emphasis Their Own-
This is for you.
This is for you.
This is for you.
This is for you.
For the Sparrow.
Lay sticks you picked up from the wood.
This is for you.
This is for you.
This is for you.
This is for you.
For the marrow.
Break bones you picked up from the wood.
This is for you.
This is for you.
This is for you.
This is for you.



Wednesday, 16 September 2026

Love Song '26

 


This is... Love Song '26

Pour corvid ink
Over my thinning skin.
Feel the creases
and the kinks.
Like if Medusa's snakes were constrictors
Spilling over shoulders.
Corkscrewing round her arms
Tongues tasting the air around them
Keeping their mistress safe.
I need syncopated breathing  to sleep
I write like a raven's movement
All nervousness in grace.
Before, I didn't understand
your part in me when you held my hand
When you said you knew me.
Unkempt gardens are meant for carefree foxes.
Hollow shells for listening to the seas.
Ivy vines made for intertwining.
Snakes for crowns.
Darkwave city shielding from the low slung
End of summer sun.