by a.d.
descend:
breach adolescence
as involuntary witness
to slaughter.
suffer Mother-faced
wrath inundation,
head full of Father
in cerement robes.
envision hypostasis
interrupted
by wishful
apotheosis.
dwell indefinitely
in tenements of tears
vestured in coruscation
of grief. lean into
apostasy. proceed
relinquishment
of innocence
with revocation of self.
intestate endearments,
memories gathered into caskets.
anthropomorphic shadows
in hallway nooks.
infrahuman desires,
cannibalistic tendencies.
ideate loss-
vindicating strategy
with minimal
self-contusion— heart
autocastration.
endure bereavement’s
manifestations.
beware solace of death.
imperative to detain
hope— soul’s erector.
embrace revenant
brother careen
together into longings
of vengeance.
emerge:
achieve deliverance
through wombless
rupture—
caveat mater.
a.d. likes to write about sex, grief, guts and God. Her work has appeared in HAD, God's Cruel Joke, SCAB, PISSOIR and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter @godstained.