#i will one day actually make a whole directory for new haven and its related novellas

[subtlefires]

poetry + prose that i wrote during rachel's stream yesterday ! both are meant to be from the POV of Vivian Monroe, the protagonist of Wicked Work (a novella in the New Haven "universe")

deity: notfound

black leaves on rotted trees

drift down to open palms

we are belief

we are faith

we are lies

half-truths on deaf ears

listen, listen

silence blackens your teeth

spott-ed vision, blurr-ed eyes

we are demise

we are the sharp incision

cut it open, make it bleed

rotted trees from blackened seed

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holy places

He believes that salvation will be found in the roots of my soul. He digs his dirt-caked nails deep into my abdomen, searching for that holy place. I tell him, ain’t nothing about the soul worth wanting by god. Least of all mine. The soul is supposed to be some amalgamation of all that we are, all that we want, all that we could be. I try to tell him, there’s too much of us to fit in some unknown pit of our guts. 

Still, he’s on his knees, elbows deep in bile and intestines. He’s looking up at me like I could answer all the prayers he don’t want me to hear. He wants me to be something exotic, something foreign, something fantasy enough that it’ll rub off on him, give him something interesting, something to like about himself. He’s cute when consumed, so I don’t bother telling him I’m just normal.

#we are slowly getting back into poetry after... six? years #i will one day actually make a whole directory for new haven and its related novellas #but for now im just vibing :) #vivian is jessamy's mother btw! #i forget that not everyone knows what im talking about lol #i am more than willing to answer new haven/wicked work/etc questions if you have any 👀 #( wicked work ) #( new haven ) #vivian #nic #writeblr #mywriting