GirlSense and NonSense Fall 2015 | Page 47

2.

physical proof that you’re breathing

right there

in a crystalline cloud

as you exhale

of course

they gave us song

and a saviour

to compensate for

bleached earth

3.

what’s left is spongy neutrals,

the excited melodies of

awakening, before

acknowledging

the wasteland

for what it is

once again feasible that

humans are heroes and

you haven’t fucked me

over just yet

4.

wear moonlight

like grace, the

resistance necessary

to exist as an entity

and not an archetype

how fragrant

the lilacs are

as i don’t fall in love with you

the way you feel entitled to