mindscape.

nicolas ripoll. xx. telepath. absinthe. s.h.i.e.l.d.: classified.

[endless-unfolding]

Say surrender. Say alabaster. Switchblade.             Honeysuckle. Goldenrod. Say autumn. Say autumn despite the green             in your eyes. Beauty despite daylight. Say you’d kill for it. Unbreakable dawn             mounting in your throat. My thrashing beneath you             like a sparrow stunned with falling.

Ocean Vuong, from “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” Poetry (December 2014)