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deep throating phalanges
fractured joints

there’s mimes at the morgue
there’s blood on the ball gag

we found roach nymphs inside of you
tastes like pasteurized pussy

pear of anguish stygian owls
disemboweled loving
with a concave chest

severed aorta rinse off the blood
this shirt helps me forget this body is mine

barbed wire ligaments
nothing startles me

feet melted flesh
married to floorboards
omens confined by longing

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extremely rare instability
in the sky super eight motel
yellow dish gloves fused to my hands
crawling on chartreuse knees

snipped your achilles with
pruning shears from under the bed
you won’t go far now
you’re with me now

in this charming way
you ceremoniously plead
while you’re bleeding out
murky velocity blithe unfurling
rib cage umbilical fertile bloat

thready pulse delicately
foaming at the mouth
sucking pus from your
wounds tragically engorged

collapsed chastity viscous
virtuous phantom mistress
divine opacity queues
of tepid orbital bones

blighted shrines of you
density of a prying hex
remarkable emesis
with your feeble devices

disorienting decapitation
spasm under twilight sedation
her eyes shine and she talks
like she runs relentlessly

burnt curtain debris
blooming stagnant water
sagittal sutures decayed stumps
cyanobacteria between my toes

sipping curdled milk sediment and spinal fluid
am i agoraphobic in the afterlife

—

bleating proxemics
and paralytics

lapsed suspension
winged marionettes
transparent coffins
shattered windows

shrill seduction
limp paranoia

suffocating circumstance
caged contortion splintered chains
rusted lockets images of you
central sublime subluxed hyoid

infected embrace bruised nails falling off
insemination at the serpentarium

sprawling mold cracked ceilings
peeling paint dirt floors
envious adorned grating
touch of a morning star

tied to a steel table someone
is feeding me but these cannot
be my hands anymore masked
injections tortured mundane tranquility

touch beyond words
kiss beyond compassion

submit to you im dizzy
im yours the stars are mine

i cant run from you there’s
not a distance anymore

glistening blood in the daylight
traversed through love
through cryptic fatalities
 

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promises of
a nourishing ablation

matte gaze pleated
cascading dust

corroded your peripherals
a glaring disjointed

incongruent armor bound
rural heavens immense

worships decomposition 
fragmented benign

dental bones
calcified stilettos 

the femur holds you 
for how long

there’s a clearing 
aside the dirt road 

im vomiting on 
the shoulder 

pastural ascendancy
steel silos 

this path left ashes 
impasses sunken etiquette 

upon death i give you my teeth 

melissa violette aliz is an artist based in new york. you may find more of her work at www.melissa-aliz.net