when i think back on the story of the little mermaid it makes me remember that one time i stabbed myself in the chest with my rainbow sword because your friends said it would make me real and when i twisted the blade in i swore that i grew legs as long as yours and my skin formed its own fishscale sheen like the rainbow that shines in a puddle of oil in the sun and i thought my mind expanded into its own rose-scented universe where i named all the foreign satellites after your enemies but since the day we met dry ice would burn in my joints and when you weren’t looking my long shiny legs would bleed enough blood to water the graveyard d
portrait of a girl in glass by NatureTheZafara, literature
Literature
portrait of a girl in glass
everything is glass lately, did you notice, glass flies,
mosquitoes.
- “glass”, Shira Dentz
in laura wingfield’s cupboard
there are many glass animals
horses, elephants, robins
pretty glass girls lifting their skirts
to dance with the pretty glass boys
among the mammals and birds
she curses their heavy glass stands
for not letting them move
to the music of her victrola
waltzes that remind birdcalls
jazz that recalls the rolling sea
that she hasn’t been to for years
she thinks of adding to them
maybe insects; butterflies and bees
to flit around the couples and the animals
as if the cupboard were a garden
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