The Knot by Dana Li

Is this folly? To bind ourselves, flesh to flesh, in blood and brokenness and whisper, in defiance, against the dark: ‘til death. To mock futility, souls conjoined, despite the mortal sting and laugh in the face of emptiness with this communion sweet. To die daily, for love asks more than words—it demands our life: every frail […]

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Eighteen by Phoebe Lyons

eighteen shades I am eighteen shades of blue eighteen shades and my kneecaps they’re throbbing my wrists my veins my eighteen shades eighteen I am so very sore my lips are frozen to the bottle my toothbrush is in my jean jacket front pocket eighteen shades of blue of why of when eighteen shades of […]

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