[a scribble]

[kaberett]

[content note: breathing, difficulty with, etc.]

In the spaces
                  between breaths
between heartbeats
             I am trapped
within the cage of my ribs, and
choked by the swelling spiking echoes of
my heart. In all this emptiness
it is poetry
            that reminds me how to breathe.

Comments

[liv]

I feel like I'm being really awful in responding to gorgeous poetry like this, but I would very much appreciate an advance mention that I'm about to read a poem about not being able to breathe. I know perfectly well it's metaphorical, but I'm having a bad breathing week literally and, um, my asthma has psychological triggers sometimes. I don't want to be one of those people who can't read anything emotive without immediately commenting to demand cuts and trigger warnings and making it All About Them. So I hope you won't take this as a criticism, just a request if you can bear to flag up this kind of thing?

[fyreharper]

<3

[untonuggan]

this is awesome.

[hairyears]

Fancy bumping into you at Heathrow!