eating the moon

By UNWILTED

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catalog of small tortures highest ranking: #2 in poemcollection Ā© z. t. corley, 2023 More

EPIGRAPH
ALMOST NOVEMBER. MISS YOU MOST IN THE DARK. WISH YOU WERE REAL.
PLEADING WITH GOD
I KEEP BLEEDING LOVE
MY HEART KNOWS WHERE TO GO
WE FADE. WE CHANGE. YOU ARE A PLUM.
MOTHER'S PEARL
GENERIC AUTUMN POEM
WANT LATE AUTUMN RAIN AND YOU
I FOUND RUINS IN YOUR HANDS
LITTLE DAGGER, HOW I WOULD BLEED
AUGUST HELD MY HAND
MY BODY EATS ITSELF
BLESS THE AMNESIAC
DEAR GRANDFATHER,
WITNESS THE SURRENDER
EXPECT SUFFERING
MY EYES ARE STILLBORN
BLESS YOUR DARK DAUGHTER
UNTITLED HAIKU
I HATE YOU ALL NIGHT
HOLD ON TO THE LEASH
AFTER THE APOCALYPSE (YOU)
BRAID MY HAIR AT DAWN
MEDITATION ON ROACHES
SEND BLESSINGS TO EVE
TO EXIST SO WHOLLY (EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE WRITING, #1)
MOON/STONE (EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE WRITING, #2)
WE ARE ALL LIVING A TINY GORGEOUS LIFE (EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE WRITING, #3)
IT STAYED
THE MOST HUMAN THING
ON EMPTINESS
UNTITLED HAIKU
THE FUTURE IS A WILD HORSE
UNTITLED DODOITSU
UNTITLED DODOITSU
THE ACHE
CHURCH ON FIRE
IF I DIE ALONE AND WAITING
GIVE ME A WOUND TO REMEMBER YOU
AT DAWN THE ANGELS TOOK YOU AWAY
LIVING ON VENUS
UNTITLED DODOITSU
YOU ARE A LANGUAGE I COULD TRANSLATE
FEBRUARY 19TH
IT DOESN'T RAIN ON VENUS
FIRST TESTIMONY
BORN NONWHITE AND WOMAN, I
EARLY MARCH QUESTION
ON ABSENCE
SOMETIMES HOPE IS A DISTANT HORIZON
FATHER/VULTURE
EARTH (EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE WRITING, #4)
LOVE AND BREAKING
SELF-PORTRAIT WITH THREE HEARTS
EAT ME LIKE HONEYSUCKLE

AUTUMN RESOLUTIONS

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By UNWILTED

I am shedding memories like hair.
I am walking away from the altar of grief.
I am ripping a beginning out of November's mouth.
I am dying on no one's cross.
I am learning how to smile with teeth.
I am learning how to not disappear.
I am falling in love with my life.
I am falling in love with my life.
I am alive and terrible
              and one day,
I will be terribly alive.

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