mooncakes

mooncakes

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15 years old

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  • 17

    on the night that you broke your eyes open,

    cried into candy packets you found at the petrol station smelling like gasoline and regret

    in your still-standing baby teeth like slabs of sugared marble there were

  • ASHES AND BIRTHDAY CANDLES

    your birthday was halo-lit nights and cigarettes in sugar cakes—

    melted icing smeared over the tips of flames snuffed out in the dark.

    you asked for a songbird, said your lungs were burnt with apocalypse dust

  • D O M I N U S V O B I S C U M

    slide the depths of your voice from the dust-lungs of your body,

    spirit fluttering iridescent ivory feathers into the ianthine arteries of your heart.

    breathe and you etch a cross onto your subconscious, glowing like

  • amnesia

    wrap your laced-up fingers around my throat like you don’t want to breathe,

    hold my pupils in your palms. do you want to smile?

    amnesia. the brain doesn’t like the watercolour poem of my skeletal frame,