by Lunchbox Editor | Apr 26, 2023
Untitled When I hurt I try and make myself hurt deeper See if it is possible to excavate this pain all at once But it still keeps bleeding So I cut away at barely healed scar tissue Carve a scalpel into my chest and hope that there is nothing left There is...
by Lunchbox Editor | Apr 26, 2023
Veil of Mirrors The vaguest of reflections blur Along the smokey windowpane. A child sits across from you, On the other side Features hidden by the dappled light. A wall of glass, a veil of mirrors, Separates the two of you. You sit here among texts and books, While...
by Lunchbox Editor | Apr 26, 2023
Will you give me your groans, your breaths, your tears, will you bury them where I can find them? Will you bake the soil, tear out the grass, until the ground is parched and lifeless and still? Will you lend me your worst memories so I can turn them into tiny rolls of...
by Lunchbox Editor | Apr 25, 2023
Woods for Sale When the sun closes her eyes and pretends to sleep, I go back, back to before scraping my knee didn’t make me cry, before I wished I still knew how to pretend and every path led to a hidden cave with broken glass and rusted swing sets, before...
by Lunchbox Editor | Apr 25, 2023
You Must Touch the Seafloor Before Swimming to Shore Slammed head first into rock bottom Lungs filled with water, Ocean pulled over my head, Laid down and slept for seven days Where it’s far too deep to see the stars Black seaweed hair waving in the tide With a...
