jaye river : Writing

go on, Saturn, eat your son

go on, Saturn, eat your son

A Poem by jaye river


you told me you had a dream in whichyou crawled through the ventsof a house you were much too big for,you look worn under the fluorescent light,etched..
seraphim

seraphim

A Poem by jaye river


like a breath, like a wraith over waterin your hands, my bloody lamb’s slaughterthey lead me down the River Styx to take her to dieyou will fall..
spring rain

spring rain

A Poem by jaye river


how nostalgic the spring rainstill wets the leaves of grass all the samefifteen years passed and now i seethe soil nourishes from underneath
scheherazade

scheherazade

A Poem by jaye river


departed rulers and empires long gone,beaten black dogs gnashing their teeth like waves battering against the shorea princess in a palanquin, resolved..
daphne

daphne

A Poem by jaye river


sentimental injury, moon-bather, eternal laurel leaves atopmy messy hair, crowning meto kill and to love - two things you can do with bare hands uncon..
proserpine / saturnine

proserpine / saturnine

A Poem by jaye river


i. proserpineyou can change your life with a single seed,or maybe a handful, butnot even your hands can carry my grief,red sticky sweet, twisted wrist..
mango

mango

A Poem by jaye river


i still remember what you said when iasked you what your own heaven would be,48 degrees, with mango trees -it’s quiet, not loud, a soft warm bre..
english strawberry

english strawberry

A Poem by jaye river


our old house with the small peach treethat grew alongside my bedroom window,the fruit was sweet and the branch hung low.we moved out after winter of ..
peach pit

peach pit

A Poem by jaye river


pulling strings between fingers,i feel the weight of my limbs as i move,i’ll break skin on shattered glass, i’m a real girland i bleed lik..
pretty girls like dead stars

pretty girls like dead stars

A Poem by jaye river


i want to hurt like pretty girls, it’sthe god awful truth, ashamed to admitto something so ugly and unfiti want to be worthy of the hurt,i want ..

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