You stab me with a misplaced comma’s edge,
expect me to bleed ink, but I blossom gold
leaf, like pages of a holy tome, and your
lines of prose crackle in my burning gale.
I am more word than woman, you see
and I am truth, your haunting just ghost
of all those who said no, who pushed me
down stairs of paragraphs, but I got grit,
I grew wings of paper, from you I fly.
Allister Nelson, Excerpt from ‘Are You Fucking New Here?,’ Darker Objects
“Darker Objects is a wickedly brilliant collection by Christine Ray and collaboration with some of the best writers of our generation. It is sure to pack a punch! “
–Allister Nelson
Allister Nelson is a 30-something poet and author.
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