Fairy Crimson Pearl

by Michelle Zhang

Jasmine jilted

around your neck

Still, I wilt in sight of you

I hide, I cower, a pebble at best

On sprouting grounds, dusted red

Sweet’n my name, a taste explored

Just your whore, I’ve lapped

and sucked none

starved for more,

please once— I want—

A sip of this phonetic folly

Taken edict of my hungered thirst

Wrest my throat, prompt, I’ll sear secret

Fill me— feed me filth— it’s flattery:

Dirt swirled with promised tears

Ailments, intrusion

Murmur me

I’ll heave a form

so kindly smitten, out I spit

Each time, a stained crimson pearl

Of unknown value, or offered appraise

Relief! Please! Just lessen my pain!

Fragility cannot gift much

But— trembling want

from a pit

Fairy Crimson Pearl - by Michelle Zhang