Friday, June 16, 2017

note to self re: raw wounds

I think I've had visitors, but I have no comments. There's a reason my byline here is "tear into me". Please, share - comments, critiques, questions - anything. I crave feedback.

Here is another poem written shortly after the last one I posted. I just know my first poetry teacher in college would have torn into me for "liminal", but to me  it feels like a gem in this sparse setting, among so many words I use too often.


just because
it was an empty threat

does not mean
it won't come creeping
behind midnight taillight curtains
to stop your hand in the liminal
of his soft snores
and choke you.

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