#rust and moth

[bostonpoetryslam]

Tonight’s Cantab feature is beloved slam host Kieran Collier! This is from his poem “Diminishing Returns,” published in Rust + Moth

[kingdomsinthewild]

Love me but set me free. Set me free before I turn caterpillar, before I turn silk-worm, before hibernation quakes through my bones and the metamorphosis eviscerates everything that I am, everything that I have ever been.

The Birdwatcher’s Wife & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls by N.L. Shompole featured on Rust+Moth

[kingdomsinthewild]

Weep, birdwatcher weep but let me go. Let me go before the breaking, before my feathers molt, before the tongue turns on itself, half-starved and bluing.

Lace Bone Beast: Poems & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls, N.L. Shompole

[largethingslargerthings]

Meditative Week of Poetry: Brendan Bense

You wake to find that you are tired of everything you love. The starlings sing

but not sweet enough. Feverfew and lavender crowd your window boxes

unplucked. You begin to erase the poem you sit in, wring

its words for purpose. Even grief is so delicate to the touch: it will melt

on your tongue as snow.

[alyssawaking]

i’ve been watching pimple-popping and cyst-lancing videos on the internet lately, watching the pus leave the wound the way the holy spirit leaves the body, in the form of liquid snakes, wet ribbons of some old hidden sin.

alyssa hanna, “sepsis”

https://rustandmoth.com/work/sepsis/

[alyssawaking]

sepsis – Rust + Moth

i’ve been watching pimple-popping and cyst-lancing videos on the internet lately, watching the pus leave the wound the way the holy spirit leaves the body, in the form of liquid snakes, wet ribbons of some old hidden sin. i am … Read More

sepsis

this is the first poem i wrote about confronting the reality that was my rape. this is me coming to terms with the fact that it happened.