change o'clock

lately i miss owls

the mountains grumble and grow, pushing up around pumpkin shards and lost dreams

who i want to be

who i’m becoming

i feel like a dusty yellow pear

i feel like the remains of an alaskan puffin widow

under a flipped green sky and spider care

and scorpion wisdom

and cheated eyes

my hair grows and my wonders deepen

they liven in thunder and the blue of music

and grand scenes of sacred delicate puzzles

i want to scream

FREE THE WORLD. 

and wedge myself into the cracks of hard hearts

with a rhyme and a melody

i want to speak like i did before, to owls and chocolate deer eyes

and sweep along the rim of my perception

cochlea and cries of 

can i go with you

Gigi Pearl

VT

16 years old

More by Gigi Pearl

  • deify

    sometimes i wish i could forget everyone i ever met

    and lie down on my back in the ocean

    only feel the noiseless miles between my toes

    minnows kissing my skin

    and nothing else

     

  • softness

    i could fit in any boot

    now i fill soles like thick snow

    how lovely it is!

    i am as soft as the love that surrounds me

    i am as soft as the ground

    i'm softer than i was before

    slowing and staring

  • hardcore crushing

    what do the wings write, light in the sky

    tales told to the whistling, empty guy

    stellar moon that turns eyes hibiscus pink

    darling dark hair, shining star, who slips his hand away in the morning