xlviii

soft edges, retracing scar tissue
as if we’re holding space for more
i often forget who is hurting who
it’s hard to breathe through memory
bloodless hands, you hated blue

i wish our wounds aligned cleaner
i wish you could see me purely
but i am reductive matter
no shape i form fits your intention
a body unbinding without reclamation

how can i become everything?
it’s not right but i would if i could
because i love you irresponsibly
manic-sickness, possessed obsessively
i fucking love you so desperately

please stray, please stay
i need consistency, i need erasure
borderline personality discordance
the gap in me and you
what remains there is the closure

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
paytherent.net.au //