On Flight

A prose poem, cw drug use, violence

SE Waters

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Photo by JJ Shev on Unsplash

In photographs, her eyes appear dull and tuned to a frequency of static and bells none of us could hear. When she was angry, her freckles would blur together, she seethed red, red, red. She’d set the house on fire.

You hid tight in your closet; a man came over to shoot coke with your mother. In those days, you could turn your fingertips into small bulbs whose…

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SE Waters

Writer, poet, graduate student, freelancer, teacher, and parent. Enthusiast of the weird. Dark sense of humor.