(SUMMER) BODY HORROR
- Dark Poets Club
- Oct 21
- 1 min read
By Philippa Greasley
Sweat between my lips
Closing them.
Oven-hot air burning chunks from my gums
My larynx, coughed up into the sink.
The sunlight is a stalker
Circling me
Sinking its nails into my eyes
Ripping my teeth and my tongue from my face
Turning me non-verbal.