Your Name By Kerriann Curtis

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​Your Name

I write your name
Your name
Your name
Accentuate each letter with a flourish
Four was always my favorite number
Affirmations alone in the bath
Bare skin
Starving pink palpitation
Grasping
Voracious
Beseeching breaths try to supplicate for just one more instance of peace
Pleasure
A flash of pain
but instead rewarded with
Blue lips
Wrinkled fingertips
Making mountains out of the rubble
Diving through the ruins
Scavenger hunt for one
Self-detonate
(My Atlantis is here somewhere)
Fall to the floor
Prostrate
Truth seeps out from the floorboards
My gift
My tribulation
Alarms
Alarms
Alarms
Speak now or forever hold your….

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Kerriann Curtis is an artist and poet based in San Tan Valley,Arizona. She is a writer on the serialized literature website Channillo, and also co-founder and editor at Wordkrapht.

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