DolsDiwrc
In the darkest, most gaseous depths of the planet Venus there rests a valley of a galaxy. In this galaxy resides many planets, and just past the planet Rilfgaey there is the planet where our story will take place, the planet of Hit Pool Lil Thlip. Now, there is something a little odd about this planet, you see, where you imagine most planets to be spherical Hit Pool Lil Thlip is actually a cube. Oh yes, do not be shocked it is a cube!
But I am shocked you cry! Well, dear reader, if that shocks you dont worry because it gets worse. The planet of Hit Pool Lil Thlip is bound to a blind zebra named Zack by a leathe
somebody once told me you can hear
the northern lights. I want to.
my lover tells me the northern lights are
charged particles in the atmosphere
making and breaking bonds like
all of our thousand lives reincarnate on
flash-forward. I want to hear that.
I want to rear up on my hind legs
like a Kermode bear and listen
for the quiet exclamations and sighs, for the
cacophony of sounds that everyone, even
electrons, make when they break bonds,
for a chance to see it from a distance. all those new
beginnings and endings. all that beauty. all that quiet, after.
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it's midnight and I'm writing love letters
on my skin to the woman who raised me. it's midnight
and every limb has a story. all
my collarbone remembers is the frantic
hurry of your footsteps when it broke under the weight
of gravity and mistaken desire to fly and my
broken pink umbrella, long-gone, remembers too. my elbows
remember the firm pull of your hands in the grocery
store. my cheeks remember your makeup and
my clumsy fingers dipping in like paint pots and my neck
remembers all your strands of pearls. I remember
when you were young again and wearing
red and holding cups of tea in hands
that didn't shake yet and I remembe