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hi, I promise I'm not dead
I was a girl……………………………………….. chasing her own blood……………………………
— Amy Key, from “Sensory notes on Music for 18 Musicians,” Isn’t Forever
Freedom by Skullrose (Harut)
—fear has prevented or rescued you from becoming, to know utterly what you’ll never be, to understand in doing so what you are, and say no to it, not to who you are, to say no to despair.
— Carl Phillips, from “Gold Leaf,” Wild Is the Wind
OH YEAH BAYBEY
what if someone wrote bernice . . . or isaac , how wild !
❝ hi, emmy ! ❞ stood at the bog's surface , a gangling clown , whose red tufts of hair liken horns. whose dusky costume writhes and flaps to a phantom wind. all else is still, deathly still. secured in its spindly fingers, the lone thread of a balloon. ❝ take a balloon. it'll cheer you up. ❞
❛ ❛ um ———— ❜ ❜ WATCH OUT FOR THE THINGS HANGING ‘ROUND SULFUR CREEK . those heinous , unnatural things ; those things that go bump in the night . four - eyed , tar - dripped , dog - teethed . THE BEAST OF BEASTS . . . this is not he . THIS IS NOT THE ABANDONED . 000 . no ram - skull , bloodied in her touch . 001 . no shifting - eyes , baring - smirk . 002 . no witch , / yes witch , you . only something , standing a statue , at the bog’s edge . it reeks of swamp - water , gore in a gator’s mouth , ‘verything decayed . PA SAID : be careful . i reckon there are some things out there that are best left in the dark . ( this is one of them , but it ain’t no haint of yours . ) manage . ❛ ❛ I - I REALLY SHOULDN’T . ❜ ❜
are you , are you . . . COMING TO THE / TREE ?
“I will place my hand in that flame and feel nothing. I will ask nobody’s forgiveness again.”
— Franz Wright, from God’s Silence: Poems; “Reparations,”
12 or 27
ABSTRACT PROMPTS ; 27 .
THE TREE SPEAKS ; what do you know that i don’t ? in ‘very dream , ‘very nightmare , i have bucked & shuddered from ‘neath you , my roots yearning to breathe free . how is it possible that you know more than i do ? with my wound a maw , chattering open , then shut . crooked , blunted teeth protruding from blackened - gum . GROAN : i was ‘live ! i was more living than you were ! i screamed lies in the dead of night , to keep her / ‘wake ! I MADE SURE SHE WOULD NOT / SHAKE THE MEMORY OF YOU , I , / WE . i am the great - beast , the old monster . . . i watch ‘ver these haints , shrouded in shadow , crowding close to her bed . I AM WHAT SHE HATES , WHAT SHE FEARS , TOO . ‘gain , i ask , a bestial - sound ———— what do you hold ‘bove me ?
from deep ‘thin the earth , a noise , like hissing whispers ; HOLLOWED . i am sunken - face , bloodied to the bone . HARROWED . i am fire - burnt , seared skin . HAUNTED . i am the grin - scarred , the death - beaten . I AM WITCH , I AM SINNER . . . I AM GOD . i am holy , / holy , / holy is the lord , god , almighty . eighteen years ———— & you all knew i would come back . evil - incarnate , sharp - eyed , devil - tongued ; I AM THE GIRLS PULLED FROM THE WOMB , I AM WHAT THIS TOWN CONSIDERS TERRIFYING . unrooted - creature , a haint yourself , cruel & mean - spirited : you are what i am , but wither wilt we go ? ( eighteen - years , we sat in wait . watching . ) back to whence we came , i reckon . a trade ; WHAT IS TAKEN , MUST BE GIVEN . we called , they listened . . . THE GATHERING .
clatter , clatter , clatter . what is it ? what do you want ? tattered - skin , feverish ; warning . ( hhhh . . . window . . . ) what ‘bout it ? something you want me to see ? wheezing , breath like a slaughterhouse . ( . . . tree . . . ) the tree ? hate to disappoint you , but i’ve seen that tree ———— stark in silhouette , ‘pon the hill’s crest : lifeforms . so many of them , moved to cruel intent ———— before . THE PACT / MUST BE HONORED . EIGHTEEN - YEARS , & SHE’S / SHOWING SIGNS . YEARS / SINCE SHE DIED . JUST A / GIRL . . . TIME HAS COME . TERMS OF THE PACT . WE / KILLED HER , KILLED THE WITCH . NOT HER , RAISED HER . I’M HER . . .
FATHER ———— pa . one of her earliest memories ; the taste of freshly - turned earth , & the bleating of goats . I , i thought i was family . i thought you . . . loved me . II , you were , & still are , far as i’m concerned . THEN , TELL ME WHY I CAN SEE YOUR FINGERS CLOSING THE GAP ‘ROUND MY THROAT ? SQUEEZING ‘TIL NO LIFE IS LEFT ? III , i do this to protect you ———— it’s a good thing you’ll be gone ‘fore you realize . . . WHAT YOU ARE .
WITCH , THE / WITCH . IT’S DECIDED . . . deepest parts of the wood , unfamiliar graves , the undesirable welcoming . don’t make this worse ———— don’t run . DON’T MAKE ME HUNT YOU DOWN . the witch . . . must die .
had every intention of writing today , but i just got back from seeing mary poppins , so i think i’m just going to relax until i decide to go to bed . love y’all xoxo
“Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.”
— Robert Frost, from “Acceptance” (via poemusicoffee)
emmy’s baptism was a baptism of fire , more at five !
Jen Titus - “O Death”
32 : Unbelonging
ABSTRACT PROMPTS ; 32 .
summer , like a tasteless funeral . carrion , lingering , a heavy - stench . hand - in hand , lured by the sound of drumming , each following their own red - river . haints watch , countless haints . they make no move . . . the preacher stands amidst three other bodies , just as petrified . two are grinning , one is not . from the bible , the town can name them ———— THE MOTHER , THE DAUGHTER , & THE HOLY SPIRIT . haunted - eyed , death - beaten , the witches with an absent smile . they question ; sinner , how do you confess ? answer ; FROM THE MOTHER’S / WOMB , FROM THE BLOODIED - GUT , FROM THESE TIED HANDS , / AMEN !
THE DEAD & THE UNBORN . the church had spoke of them a ‘ comin’ , a hushed sound in the dead of night , ‘thin the lords presence . serpents from their skulls , eyes ablaze , voices amounting forty others . arms extended , perfect poise : IS THE / DEVIL MAN ? OR / WOMAN ? the crosses did not work , & neither did the burning . with their hands wrapped tight ‘round throat , feeling pulse ‘neath palm , the god - shaken echo in unison : THE DAMNED WILL NOT / BURN IN THIS / ONE . the father dares not near the altar , blood seeping ‘to the wood where the evil feasts : 000 . TEETH DEEP IN THE HEART OF THIS TOWN . 001 . YOUR NAMES , PULLED FROM CHRIST’S LIPS . emmy , hester beck , kammi ——————– amaryllis . 003 . SILENCE / IN BREATH , A GOSPEL UNHEARD . hungry , never satisfied . . . in this state of unbelonging .