In the dark,
I did sigh and feel the heavens shake within me so mercilessly
The sister killed me a deer and sliced open its neck
and told me god had drowned in the flood.
And the boy wasn't you,
the one I adored
Together we slept in bitter fluid and rubbery clots of barrenness.
I prayed for emptiness, but in secret hoped she would be there,
breathing silently like a low drum
lapping up life in her dreamless sleep.
the sister kept pretending that she'd heard an ecosystem
cawing,
o, emancipated child,
bones rot harder than imagination.
i closed my eyes and out she trickled
in seeping, burgundy clumps of pretty