xiv

would you smother me like smoke
fading slow as the a warm dusk glow
i want to be nothing but blood to you
uwavering flow, bone splintering bone

how i have desired your starvation
a prayer to be answered by darkest incantation
sweat spilling fervent for metallic intoxication
mercy as the gift of your hunger’s fixation

i writhe hopeless against your tongue
bound tight by the clenching of teeth
a visceral form, begging to be undone
for all my substance i am pulled from beneath

belonging as prey bred for the blade
disemboweled in rage like it was all that you craved
to the lust of your need I am so readily claimed
leave nothing left of me but what you have chosen to save

existence in poetry //

transgender,
hopeless sapphic
gothic romantic //

revelations in love,
despair, hope
failure, beauty
death, personhood
resistance, healing //

non-indigenous woman
dwelling in Naarm
on lands sovereign
to the Wurundjeri people
this always was
always will be
Aboriginal land
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