Safe Shadows

Snippets, Shorts, and Shit Haikus

[safeshadows]

Grinding my bones in

to Chalk residue on my

skin white as Fury

-26.05.23

[safeshadows]

Nettle needle itch

Black leaves damp from open wounds

With scars come ego

-First Tattoo 24.05.23

[safeshadows]

Bare sky, bare soil

Not empty but full of life

No one thought to make

-No God Made Beautiful Creatures 23.05.23

[safeshadows]

It's red fucking hot

To match the red fucking skin

Peeled from the English

-Sunny in Scarborough 21.05.23

[safeshadows]

I am persuaded

By stifling sweat who beg to

Be born of the sea

-Cold Swim on a Sunny Day 20.05.23

[safeshadows]

Hunger at the sky

Bleeding red wine and steak juice

Bloat me like noon suns

-18.05.23

[safeshadows]

in trembling silence

i whisper deciding words

should we end? should we?

-16.05.23

[safeshadows]

Soft words are blankets

overheating minds to wake

restful and sweating

-15.05.23

[safeshadows]

painting over pain

with thicker pigment to hide

just stains brushes red

-10.05.23

[safeshadows]

scorched by Summer's first

mocking laugh. I smile in the

hope she'll bring freckles.

-marked 08.05.23

[safeshadows]

Raspberry Flowers

Soon spiders legs crushed in red

Now stay white and pure

-Purity Starves 07.05.23

[safeshadows]

The children play blind

Neon lights shine like futures

Up 10 pence from 2

-Arcade 06.05.23

[safeshadows]

Pink glitter pollutes

Dry heaving in the alley

Eyes as red as thoughts

-04.05.23

[safeshadows]

Hormones straining in

Synch with the tongue powered mulch

Of weak paper straws

-I Don't Know how The Implant Works but I Imagine 02.05.23

[safeshadows]

He was as stern as

summer nights to let me stay

and watch the dusk bats

-while dad calls for the cats 30.04.23

[safeshadows]

My skin squashed by your

Spine collapsing my breast bone

Air is for the lone

-Lay With Me, Love 29.04.23

[safeshadows]

Fire extinguisher

Foam suffocates me against

The self sealed escape

-Can't Think With This Brain Pulsing Headache 28.04.23