Nightheart

Nightheart

VT

19 years old

Posts

  • My People (As Anchors)

    Brown bodies sink, 
    are weighted, stick 
    to the ocean floor, falling
    from overcrowded rafts
    into the arms of their heathen’s heaven.

    Brown bodies are shot over 
    the border like cannon balls.
  • Bluebird song

    Climate Change Contest: Gold

    I. 
    I wish I hadn’t been born in the Age of Extinction, 
    I really don’t think my origami heart was made for this,
  • An American prayer

    This is an American prayer. 
    This is a mother lifting her child onto her fingertips. 
    This is our planes leaving. 
    This is a blurry green shot of a soldier. 
    This is a history book. 
  • empty

    the earth tells me i am too small
    and i grin back all bloody corners and chapped lips.
    i have never looke innocent a day in my life, i know, i know.
    my smile has always been too hungry to satisfy.
  • Sunburnt

    I miss girlhood.
    My bones ache with the longing of it,
    The way that our legs would swing
    Around the metal of the monkey bars
    Warmed by the afternoon sun
    Shoved uncomfortably under our knees,
    Our hands reaching for the mulch.
  • it's been a year

    Maybe it's been a year, 
    I know this house like 
    The lines of my mothers face now.
    My life is contained 
    Inside four walls, five rooms 
    And three bathrooms, specifically,