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Writer's picture: Alexis RuschAlexis Rusch

why not 45 lbs. Al?

more lbs, makes my heart lb.

get me out of the lb.

i am a hound, hungry. fasted. ready to feel.

i kneel. pray. worship to the drumming woman inside the ribbed cage.*

a once starving hound, brittled to ground. skin and bone. house alone.


found weight.


close my eyes to try and find that ambitious girl inside.


memories of her so sweet.


capture those that saw her as meat or a tool they could so silently beat.


a clock has been Aliced.

metamorphasized in time.


emit this pound inside.


in motion is the only reprieve.

a matter of time before she befriends the grieve.


just weight. don't wait.

so weight.

pounds.


be kind.


the unwritten *

i want to hide. i feel i've tried when i untied.

i know that's a lie.

i died.

crushed by the silent force of the starry's night black eye

or the sharpened blade that deadly stare made

into the lung

her breath falls short

but no one to call

help her breathe

survival instincts

she dials the wild

earth's rivers resuscitate

the mountain's cold air painfully force her open

it hurts - she hates it

one breath

muscles spasm

underwater

this is a healing

a regeneration

no one to help but you

and your mother

she will numb your toes with her permafrost

punch your gut with your own oar

claw your skin on her rocks

poison you with flora

prick you with surprise

yet she does this with intention

she shows you, that you can and will heal

becoming and returning

once starved.

the noises, the lies.

been called a horror with no reason why.

internally beat

i own this. my submission.

cognisant that foe nor bloody summit will cease to exist

like the salmon we either get stronger or get caught

Swim

Mate

And bloody hell CREATE.





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