Paper Heart

there are poems inside of you that paper cant handle all stuck inside an urn sitting on a mantle filled with secrets and dead promises and broken hearts filled with lies and dead smiles and painful remarks there are poems inside of you that paper can’t handle stuck like your mind when your favorite person …

My Amygdala

Naked scales and serrated wants fall around me like inlets of a vertical body of water. Sound is the lizard in me, anhydrous its eyes; slide a finger down its lizard tail and feel irate grooves— centuries old—rising away from fear under its violent epidermis. Take me to your calm place and I will sink …