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Skin & Bones

A Poem by Larry John

trigger warning: suicide

Riot

A Poem by Larry John

this is a riot against my own name. we charge into battle on horses of flame. the flames die quick against the enemy’s boat, ..

A Poet's Curse

A Poem by Larry John

my head was once much more than you, but now I’m trapped, in sync. and as you lead me down this road your lies fill me with ink.

Anxiety

A Poem by Larry John

you are the absence of air in my lungs, a cotton ball shoved between teeth. with a belly of glass, you laugh at me still, and leave me t..

Colours

A Poem by Larry John

Blue is the colour of both the sea and the sky, of soft sea foam washing across sandy beaches, of cloudless nights, of summer days spent..

we lasted an eternity

A Poem by Larry John

a young man with a rose for a soul found me painting in the ashes of a forest. he won't stop running his fingers through his faded sunflower h..

The Sun and the Star

A Poem by Larry John

You called me your star and I called you my sun, and we with our bodies of light became one.

Icebreaker

A Poem by Larry John

Icebreaker, bring your lips to this glacier and melt it with your hands. Turn its callous edges soft. Pray for its destruct..

forgive me

A Poem by Larry John

Do you remember that final fightand how you spat blood, kept spitting blood, like you were a viper and it was your venom? There&rsquo..

I am covered in the dust of a thousand stars

A Poem by Larry John

a celestial body turnsmy screams into songs,and still you call me weak.I waswhen you choked me with the hands you promised would begentle.I waswhen yo..