Delirium
“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
DELIRIUM
oxytocin on her sleeve
where she
dribbled;
bonnet bunched up
chucked in closet.
a harum-scarum skeleton,
big knobby head
on baptismal pillow.
its silk molding;
trichotillomania.
feverish chattering
of bony teeth,
always half-asleep.
the purring of a kitten,
warm with milk.
she’s verifiable.
7/22/2020
Delirium Poetry Contest
Kai Michel Neumann
Copyright © Kim Rodrigues | Year Posted 2020
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