Deliquescence, My Baby

Photo by Stella Zhong

O! There breaks the wine dark sea 

Splash hard now 

Smooth, shiny pink tile 

Deliquescence, my baby 

Gritty blood

Birthing hourglass sand 

Sticks, sticky, stuck 

Pushing hard into the skin under my fingernails

Splits in greasy plastic  

I didn't see, and you were blind

Nobody is there, he put out our eye! 

How many coins are in your wallet?

Little eyes, nails, strewn in the bowl 

Dirty feet, you lotus eater

Toes on the soft carpet 

Gravel in my abdomen 

Cradle me here, on  

Ceramic linoleum 

Fluorescent, grabby pain 

Weaving, unweaving, and weaving again 

Gone, back in the corn maze

With that dirty fucking animal

Drippy blood, like candle wax 

O! Hubris again! 

Those ladies said we would, 

So we forgot the prophecy

You never show the right colors 

I pitch myself from the cliff

This piece was included in our inaugural print issue, Taboo. To explore this edition of MEUF Magazine,  please visit the issues page.