Dom Fonce 🔈

I am invisible, shirt stuffed and undulating with tiny disasters. The blisters are forming – because I am young, I must touch everything. A man smokes a cigarette across the field. When I see him, I place the bristly body of a caterpillar between my fingers. I remember coiling with myself in the autumn piles, bark-flavored, the perish seeping into my jeans. I let them freely roam my skin, make home on my collar – I will suffer tomorrow, but for today I am happy being a nest. If one falls from the horde, it falls into the future. My sister is in the house, alone like me, only dartingly. She sticks her teeth in the windowsill’s wood, eyes jumping across the backyard, better reading than a book – mouth agape, hungering for a world she has yet to discover.