Aurora Phoenix Your Urgency Pierced My Marrow with vanilla milquetoast pleadings you spun a web the envy of Arachne smeared in syrupy cajolery – I supped on…… Read more “Malevolent Melody: a collaborative piece by the curators of Blood Into Ink”
Tag: TRAUMA
Liar, liar – Kristiana Reed
Time doesn’t heal all wounds; the ones you wrought have stayed open and continue to bleed intermittently whenever you lie, or play the victim in ill-fitting clothes…… Read more “Liar, liar – Kristiana Reed”
What Lies Beneath? Christine Ray
what lies beneath this skin no longer supple and new etched with time’s fine lines that radiate from tired eyes faintly shimmering scars that circle my neck…… Read more “What Lies Beneath? Christine Ray”
Malevolent Melody: a collaborative piece by the curators of Blood Into Ink
(Aurora Phoenix) Your Urgency Pierced My Marrow with vanilla milquetoast pleadings you spun a web the envy of Arachne smeared in syrupy cajolery – I supped on…… Read more “Malevolent Melody: a collaborative piece by the curators of Blood Into Ink”
Is the World Burning?- Varnika Jain
It’s the stars’ fault I say Weren’t they supposed to know everything? And the sky The blood red sky Shouldn’t it have stooped? And the mountains…… Read more “Is the World Burning?- Varnika Jain”
In Case You Still Don’t Understand Consent-Jessica Boyles
This was no one-night stand I’ve had drunken sex that I regretted Or not Too many times for mom to read about here This was not that…… Read more “In Case You Still Don’t Understand Consent-Jessica Boyles”
Sing, Nightingale- Aurora Phoenix
my tongue remains whole, intact yet strangely tied on subjects of my subjugation a likely consequence of messages spoken and unspoken on the importance of politeness no…… Read more “Sing, Nightingale- Aurora Phoenix”
When you repress your trauma to save your mama…-Dom
I always thought you were perfect… your skin, your eyes… your face… and even your lies… I idolized your deceit… I was your keeper, shackled by an…… Read more “When you repress your trauma to save your mama…-Dom”
Exquisitely Numb: Jessica Boyles:
Withdraw Pull away Go missing Find control In emptiness Lay quietly Stare at the wall Rest in the absence A disappearance A melting away Stillness welcomes me…… Read more “Exquisitely Numb: Jessica Boyles:”
