Rituals (2021)
I want to read at night and remember to blow out candles
I want to know how to slow my breath without inhaling smoke
I want to be soft and pink and surrounded by other things
(soft and pink).
I want this,
And I want myself, back.
The best parts of me are still inside, I think, a great pearl growing.
Soon, amidst all this pain, my pearl will grow too big for its shell
I want this pearl to be the thing that unravels me.