Define normal It’s what I know when I’m with her May not be yours but I’ve never asked for your approval. We grow up forgetting what “human” means until we are filled with the overwhelming need, to rejoice in another person’s being, only to be cut short when someone asks what it means. Then ugliness, … Continue reading Definition
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Wires
I feel the weight of the battery pack digging into my neck, as it hangs over my heart. I feel the wires tangling around my breasts. The pull of the adhesive on my skin leaves behind dark rings and reddened agitation. The pack sometimes vibrates, bringing my attention to the weight at my hip, and … Continue reading Wires
Slipping
Hold back, hold on, letting go is too easy there is a catch, there has to be, something, something give it meaning, tell me what is needed to be heard, before it slips through the thin grasp I have. Let go they say, let it be free, but there is a catch, always a catch … Continue reading Slipping
Layer
It’s the smooth step, a click and the dance and I thought the heavyside would eventually take the wear, maybe we thought too little on a too much idea until it came crashing down layer by layer by layer. Living in the unrealness we time traveled home an hour difference is all it took to … Continue reading Layer
Faith Taryn Davies 