#i presented this at my school's open mic poetry night tonight

[moonluringfrost]

Marionette

Dredging sand from the dreaming sea  Asynchronous and jagged  Filtering out the loveliest bits of squirm To fill the hallows of my eyes  With the remains  It stays in my head constructing The siren’s call  To just breathe in 

I can hear the transmission towers ringing out  Against the weight of what they carry The weight of time compressed  Distilled  History burning  Turbines whirring  With no breeze to be found 

We all  

We want The memory  Reaching inside ourselves  To grip at visceral assurances  Out of reach and caught  Up in the wires of the transmission towers  Wringing out  The final notes 

Adrift

There’s odd angles in the splinters Bones and disjoint  Crooked fall and teeth knocked  Against glass  The cracks fractalize  Tumbling in and in and in  Never closer to the end  And I try to be careful as I thread the needle  Unsteady, unstable  Shakingly coaxing the stitch home  Someone needs to fix the torn seams  The flesh rent where lightning struck  Iron wells where I’m stuck  Pulling the strings to hold myself aloft