Poetry by Sophie App-Singer

​Poetry, in the Fluorescence


when your song plays
leave your boy/beast/man behind, get out on the hot pink concrete

sweat off the bile that piles in your throat like nights filled with
forgotten memories of times you'd rather not remember 

you twirl and find yourself on the ground
on another dirty bathroom floor, nettle-haired and dreaming

there's an ache between your knees and a longing in your eyes
for something more

there is no god, just your dirty fingers
caressing yourself in the flashing lights

you wait for whatever salvation a basement and fluorescence can bring

because you are suspended somewhere in-between, a tasting menu of different colors of beautiful, woke ghosts

because in the end, when the kodak black, the j cole, the boogie wit da hoodie plays

you'll become a doe mid leap, twerk, dream, die.





Summer


know what is gone
and what is beyond the dandelion veil

know what is just out of
reach, something you can just barely taste on the 

tip of your aching 
tongue

you're a whole-headed nightmare
some rare birdlike enigma 

flapping through the warm night
like godspeed, glory, send us away to some place we've never known

once, you told me my poetry was too sad
and if you were just there for me

maybe we wouldn't be a fire
of burning feathers

your bones
are my bones

and isn't that enough?
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Bio: Sophie, AKA Sparkle Jumprope Queen of Hello Poetry loves rap music and hails from the pacific northwest. She loves slam poetry, and is influenced by music and other poets. 

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