“[Blood] Sodden Anguish/Deathbed Red (Fall 2017 Mood Board)” — a poem (2021) first published in Survivor Lit (2021) & forthcoming in full-length manuscript, Experiments in Quietus (Really Serious Literature, 2023)
[blood] sodden anguish infiltrates interrogates
fabric dips dyes flesh scarlet
towels rags already adorn the
floor design inspo autumn shade
auburn burgundy the hues of
after sapphire runs obscure sans
sanctum sliced open blue blood
rinses over oxygen gaspgasp ruby
red slick essence plasma specked
heart milk artillery arteries severed
veins plied contorted perverted into
themselves triple-knotted hurled out into
the universe carpet bleached clean
deathbed suicide where blood runs
free