Poems from shel
When you began to trace electric secrets across my hand
we were not sitting beside each other,
but levitating in a pool of humming energy...
Adams parents scream and yell, they chain his slender body withtowering ultimatums and tears.
I bring him into my spare room, intomy...
You are showing me
that is okay to be myself
to feel vulnerable and loved
without being cavalier
without aiming for shock value
and...
Yes, but,
what happens when you see
dozens of scars snaking down my flesh,
will you ask their stories, will you grimace in silence, will...
These men approach me,kneeling, they present gory heartsaortas flopping violently like so manybuckets of fish, ripe for the selling.They...