literature

What's in a name?

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You take my name and
snap it like a wrist bone.

Crack the consonants
over your tongue
until the vowels lay limply
in your mouth.

Bone shards. The letters
fall half-dead at your feet.
I cradle them in my lap,
sobbing their sounds as if
I could scream life into them again.
As if echoing their mutilated syllables
would make me belong to myself again.

You have my blood on your fingers.

You have my blood on your fingers
but you simply wipe it off on your pant leg.
I wrote a poem on my tumblr for a prompt bywriterscreed
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inthespacebetween's avatar
sometimes i come back to this just to feel it roar in my head

the first two lines ring quietly in my mind constantly