elementia

the code of separation

By Katie Stanos

7 november 2017 (sight)

your veiny, wan feet/expansion/between you/the floorboards/creation of

     space

smacking the granite countertop breaks

     infinity they say


Treading Water

By Katherine D. Westbrook

This is the pretend-dream,

where I am teaching you to swim,

and your body and my body

remember their names in the water.


Driftwood

By Isabelle Shachtman

She whispers in my ear when hugging me

I want to stay here forever

I don’t want to go



I’m driftwood

I don’t ever stay for long

But I don’t have the strength to pull away


Without Heaven

By Ada Heller

I know

that when I die

I’ll sink into the soil

Be eaten by all the things I’ve eaten

Become the dirt for all to walk upon

I know that my thoughts are just neurons firing

That my heart is a collection of molecules


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