Breathe me in, my honey, your honey
and commit me to memory.
Mandarin peels, basil fingers,
starlit clementine in a bottle of flesh.
Cut into a blood orange and watch
how fast decay sets in when
fruit already rots from within.

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Blood Orange Periphery / 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺
Poetry❝The calm in my marrow spoke in muted bursts of fireworks. I was born for explosions and trying to be less.❞ Over the past decade, I've written poems, books, short stories, fanfiction and hundreds of thousands of words, but nothing felt complete. Th...
Blood Orange
Breathe me in, my honey, your honey
and commit me to memory.
Mandarin peels, basil fingers,
starlit clementine in a bottle of flesh.
Cut into a blood orange and watch
how fast decay sets in when
fruit already rots from within.