Category Archives: Poetry

Did You Never Know

You were bliss, beneath me, in your collar. You were his, but I planned to take you and make you mine. Such a thing, to talk about a human being as an object, something we could possess. Surely you had … Continue reading

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Dally With Me There

My most precious possession. I own her utterly, and so set her free as I please, to see the world and fly back to me, ever back to me, to her gilded cage. She does not resent the bars, does … Continue reading

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Chains

Each morning, I get out of bed from beside my wife and I walk past the bedrooms of our three small children and I go to the attic, amidst things old and new, where I look to the secrets artists … Continue reading

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To Sleep With The Light On

Birthed by a monster, bitten by a wolf, raised by a banshee, suckled on venom, heart as dark as the blackest of tarpits, and still she is soft enough to sleep with the light on, like us, afraid of things … Continue reading

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Any and all attempts

Any and all attempts to subvert the patriarchy will result in not a quick death but a slow torture by injection. You will have your self worth replaced by airbrushed pictures of perfection and you will have your self love … Continue reading

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