beautifully broken by you

numbing

edge of day

*

cranberry

smeared lips

swallow

charred words

-letters

coil up

my esophagus-

stretched chords

in sweeping

pitches

drip

bittersweetness.

*

black silk

shift dress

rumpled -split

closures

- impassionly-

encrusted lines

drilled by

diamonds

slope

and

slant-

mingling

half dollar

plumps

in iris tones

on apricot canvas.

*

star-dew

wishes

dotting

chipped sapphire

sky-

muted.

©️ Meg. December 3, 2918.