marionette

awake
too early
all the day's air
already
deflated

gasp
gulp &
sob somehow

simultaneously

can't tear
this wretched
head from
a hot bed

hollowness
too heavy
to move or
move on or
move away

& i just want to
move again
with purpose
move like
moving matters

but i fight myself
to my feet
for the day
anyway

tie slow
strings for
these marionette
motions

wooden
painted limbs
clatter & clamber
with external
purpose

an act of
movement
the farce
of mo(u)rning

routine

ceiling tiles

ceiling tiles

fighting kind by ainslie wills

cool out by matthew e. white & natalie prass

wild horses by bishop briggs

not above love by alunageorge

tundra by sleepmakeswaves

die young by sylvan esso

let me down easy by gang of youths

midnight hour by teischa

deep wide ocean by the jezabels

never gonna change by broods

ghostwriter

he looks like
he's been reading

poetry
all day

all mine

& i'm converted
more to a

show versus tell
theory

when his hair
falls into &
over his eyes

as he
focuses

the tip

of his tongue
in his teeth

starts

all my
little word
heartattacks

an image
of stubblescratch

raw along
the side of my
neck

all morning
accompanies

the ghosts
of fingertips

soft along
the sides of my
thighs

need his low
rumblings

to echo around
chest walls
pressed up against mine

or how shoulders might
shake still, when
he holds on tight &

laughs into my hair

& i could
draw diagrams
in disarming detail

if he ever
asked me to

but i just write

just
right

and he
will never see
what he

does to the mind of me

& we talk
of obligation

as if anyone else

were a good
enough reason

for doing

or

not doing

summer mellowdies

the highs by panama

arty boy by flight facilities feat. emma louise

does your city sleep like mine by jim lawrie

never start by middle kids

what can i do if the fire goes out? by gang of youths

jungle by tash sultana

strange or be forgotten by temples

all disco by elbows

wasted on fidelity by cameron avery

love is mystical by cold war kids

let's hug longer by heaps good friends