Mahrukh Riaz, Stuck with Words

Stuck with Words

Mahrukh Riaz

the anatomy of her want spilled down from her skin and bones into sharp rhythms and stuttering synths her claustrophobic bleeding breaths cascaded into a loud cacophony of sighs. ink seeped through the pages of feelings old and blurred and into a mess of black from when her thoughts staggered and halted and throat clogged with musings unable to go outside. and under the darkness of her four walls below the warm shades of the fluorescent lamp her mouth gaped open dripping words onto pages for no one to read for now it was just her unshed fat, ugly tears and alabaster wings too large to carry