i am not like your color
i prefer the shadow’s
blood.
we made our placebo upon
it once before and
without notice;
we wept until we fell
asleep.
we fell to our insomnia
sleep.
this poem was about the
back and
forth and in and out of
this black
chant immortalizing my
waterfall
shoulders. this poem is
about
the natural and beautiful
decay and
restoration undone;
the becoming history
of my me.
the jade looking glass
of cuts and scrapes
and permanent bruises.