Once long ago ( Read more... )

if you ever find it
you will not recover

it does not matter how it ends

you will be changed in a way that has no words

it is your initiation,
your true blooding,
and your body will be left with scars like a tribal man,
as if the wounds
were rubbed with charcoal
while they were fresh.

Not a red rose or a satin heart ( Read more... )