It Rained & I Thought of You
WRITTEN BY EMILY PENG
i dreamt you encased in a tomb
of needles; no face, just your black teeth
glimmering at the caterpillars nestled in your
collarbone. in the dark, i memorized
your grin & i woke up screaming
into the chest of the man on the moon. he
tells me to bleed into his palm &
i wonder why my coccyx bone still
hangs around your neck. i braid your
breath into licorice as he rubs his
lips along my back, teeth catching
in the slit shaped hole waiting for your
dagger to fill it. his shoulder tastes like
rain & dark chocolate; then
metal, when i find a key lodged
between his front teeth. the coccyx
bone is nearly impossible to
identify & there are bruises on my
thighs from where his body doesn’t fit mine.