poems unborn

what about all the poems
I haven’t written?

every breath
of my eyelids is a poem, every
second of every day
is a poem, every movement,
every sigh, every tear
is a tiny poem
left to cry itself
to sleep.

all these unborn poems
hum inside my bones
like bees, bubble
in my throat like a
scream, shine
from my hair like
the moon silvery pale,
I am eldritch with them,
pregnant
with so many
ghosts. my tiny
little poems, I cradle you
in my blood
as I embrace
the void.

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R. Brookes McKenzie

what fresh hell is this

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