Starfish Memorial

Ariadne

The carnage of hearts,

discarded in the bracken

broken brachial arms and arteries–

 

This phantom wound still aches

with the sting of salt water,

And limbs that once danced,

once reached to you–

I cut off parts of myself that never grew back.

 

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