The walls are covered with
spider-webbed blood stitching.
A light bulb undresses
the room harshly, causing
cascades of light to dance
with the concrete in your hair.
You hold a shattered wine glass and drink from the sharp edge, watching me taking myself apart.
First is the skin, I slip it over my shoulders and it shimmies down my wrists. I take my spine and snap it…
The wait was finally over. You started banging on my door at exactly 3 AM. I know this because I stood across the street, by the railroad tracks. You let yourself in slowly, curling your body around the door like a saxophone player picking their instrument up.I saw glimpses of you wandering around the house. Lights blinked. You opened every window and began throwing my things out. Notebooks, teacups, the small Eiffel tower bust. The sharp edge stuck in the ground like a golf tee. You carried…See More