Surprisingly, Death’s door is butter yellow with a pink butterfly wreath. My alter ego is drunk in my neighbor’s garden, touching her pansies in the most unbecoming way. When I cross Death’s threshold tonight in the lingerie I bought at the discount department store, the fraying rayon pulling taut over my eagerness, all my menstrual blood will gush out of the house. My terror will be the breeze on your back as you stand on my grave and say, “Where did you put my satisfaction?”
Day: January 22, 2025
Think of Me in the Depths of Your Despair
How I stood on the glittering brink holding out a branch for you to grab. How you spit in my eye. The nightingales don’t sing where you’re going. I live now in a cave full of paper mache and feral mirth. You bury your name in ash and call it a bath.
Microfiction – The Best Cook
I’m the best cook in the world. I’ve won dozens of prestigious awards. Love is my secret ingredient. I apply the leeches to her gently, ringing out her juices from her alabaster skin into the carbonara.
The Life and Times of Us All
Life carries her green magic market. Verdant veracity will be verified. Time will be devalued and beaten.
Fear
Risky grass points at the sun, accusing her, blaming her for their birth. Here, the bullets hover just above the nape of the neck. This is a wholesome place because Fear is the primordial feeling, black and polished as onyx. Fear is honest. It does not succeed in subterfuge.