Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks August 2015 (Collaboration) | Page 41

Hygge
Nina O’Donovan
opening your eyes feels more
like being ripped out of an envelope,
cracked out of an egg.
daily
these thoughts spread like bruises—
pour ear to ear through your mind.
you were used to being reflective;
and now the sun attacks the sky
every night—
and now crawling with emotion;
please give me the soft of you.
anytime you have the chance
please stop the needle
before it bluntly dimples flesh,
just once—
what other way is there
to unlearn this silence?

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