[ POETRY - SHORT POEMS
- AN ANTHOLOGY ]
WARNING:
CONTAINS USAGE OF
NOSTALGIC & TRIGGERED
MANIA- A LIFE LIVED AND
LOVED UNDER BLEEDING
GUMS.
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hollis brown thornton
on flickr
#4 in poetrycollection [28-11-2021]
a tiny bullet driven through my fingers, my father's roar and laughter that starts to disappear while in the corner i see my brother wetting his face with something dark and like a scene from a horror movie an illuminated pentagram on the floor and a silent but ridiculous prayer rises from the pit of our throats- a prayer for home, a prayer for aunt maria's bonito gato that sings its way through its cage and a fur ball of veins pop out the spaces of my aunt's mouth there we buried the miseries of our centuries' kids in prayer and uncle luis complained as he disappeared within the folds of a demon's palm- and a kind offering of chicken bones and wishful songs and expectations was placed at the altar while my father gives up his blood and sweat and my mom throws her diamonds into the flare of a beautiful family (the demon) and we sat there watching the fire, the silent hum of the winter outside our homes- the wind dying.
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