you use the queen of hearts as a bookmark for your poetry journals. as there’s a sense of fulfillment in the way you recycle her. there are no punches that land on you, just paper cuts from the many pages that you had to flip. for some reason they hurt even more. the way the wounds bleed and paint the pages, pain personified itself into something touchable. you take that as an excuse to carry her everywhere you go, as she metamorphosizes into something real.














