Poems from Pearly-Pearl
Broken by words
I trace memories like paper-thin chances,
Leaking out of wounds too stubborn to heal
I reject platelets
Like moments
And...
There was a time when I was able to hold your heart like fragile secrets in the warmth of my hands and now, sweltering, I am forced to let...
Addicted to a mother who,
in her eyes never loved her,
created mental disintegration to a psyche so fragile
Failing to inherit qualities of...
Kept a permanent division between her thighsand in the eyes of boys her body was a playground.Young men slid down her swirling slide,...
Play our war drums.
Allow the beats of this body,
these bones
to cover bruises held like a second skin from wars that lay out blue prints...