
pour everything out.
you don’t always
have
to drown.
in your own skin.
© Hudson Biko
Photograph by Sarah Diniz Outeiro

pour everything out.
you don’t always
have
to drown.
in your own skin.
© Hudson Biko
Photograph by Sarah Diniz Outeiro
blackboards.
stained chalk.
a heart held
bleeding.
outside
of its chest.
you know the feeling
when it feels
as though
you can’t be saved
© Hudson Biko

you have spent years
flowering
this weakness
for you
-the petals are wilting
© Hudson Biko
Photograph by Roman Kraft
the becoming is slow. and often. you will not feel the happening. happening to you. but it is there. in the sigh of the day. and the laughter of the night. brewing.