“you never tucked my hair behind my ear and i never hit the ground until my knuckles broke” LovePoetrySummerAbuse Book:Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman Source: Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
“not before i have prayed in the rain, washed the blood from these old bones, not before i have stripped away everything that remembers you and stepped into heaven as a naked star” LoveGodPoetryReligionHeavenAbuseSurvivorMetaphysical Book:Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman Source: Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman