convinced of colitis the accusing finger under the ribs the worm tantalizing the fish and with a pain more jointed than any insect, this is ...

Maybe if I pretend I don’t see The way you look at me This cane will fade And I’ll feel whole Maybe if I pretend I’m beautiful You’ll love m...

When I want to disappear I look down at my feet, imagine my head nestling under my toes, or I wear my smile overflowing with happiness and h...

alright all night long I watch the traffic lights change, and I listen for the coming of ice. the police come and pet my hair. day c...

Nesting Bones dislocate from rawened sockets as the perception of self is wrenched and wrecked aside. Rib-bones snap and contract sharply co...

Phantom pain! or is it real? I should know... I do know this. So simple, like swimming. Swimming through mud. Hands quiver. Medicine he...

I want to hide within myself Away from everyone and everything Voices natter inside my head Feelings swell Insecurities rise I don’t kn...

Light slants into the scullery kitchen where I am looking at pictures in comics. Tripe is bubbling in a battered saucepan while in a Pyr...

Pamela's note:  This is a piece of a collection in progress, on themes of trauma and deformity. ~*~ TW:  Blood and violence (Untitl...

I try not to step on anyone’s toes But it’s hard with feet doused in concrete Other women have dainty ballet slippers And I have shoes ma...

there was no need to wave wands conjure spells or mix magic potions I did not languish lupine under pale, full moons nor speak in mystica...

I have heard it said that love starts with one's self my conundrum—what happens when even the most basic component of one's body c...

Cry to heaven Unloved and unwanted Roaming the Earth Lost and cursed Man-child so weak Nature's freak So they say Depression you...

Trigger warning:  Brief mention of suicide NormalPeople You're told NormalPeople don’t hallucinate; don’t analyze suicide methods t...

Trigger warning:  Institutionalized abuse Not Again Don’t shock me again I’ll smile and eat the rubber meat covered in congealing re...

I stare at shifting light Bleeding through the curt branches Tapping shadows and sunburnt clouds. I feel like the wind-caught leaves Fin...

Breakable like a piece of glass, Fragile, Don't drop - I'll shatter, Don't even look harshly, Or I may break, When did this...