gaia_lenox

To Do: 

• clean the bathroom 
• pack a lunch 
• find a stone the color of your eyes
• figure out where the garden gnomes keep going 
• finish questions for chapters 1-4
• wish on the fish at the

I have my fathers eyes 
and tendency toward resentment 
and my mothers hands look 
just like mine 
but my nose is my own 
shaped by unkown allergies
and blood stained tissues
and my mothers 

sometimes 
after a cigarette 
you let your hands 
trail over the texture 
of your jeans 

sometimes 
late at night 
you idealize paris 
and promise to fall in love with me 

ive started to notice 
that im bleeding from my 
chest 

and I am staining the carpet

leaving foot prints that track 
my restless mind 
and hungry stomach 

do you remember 
the day you missed 
in 3rd grade 
when we all learned how to fall 
in love 
with the clovers 
that sprouted between 
blades of grass 
how we spent nights 

there is gaps
between my breaths 

that take up
more time
than they should 

more gone than 
there 

i have a new callus 
on the crease of my 
index finger