Voluminous
—-Don’t Hug me I’m scared, Red & Duck. Red’s perspective
Yes, our hearts are so cut
You are so cut up
Like in the precise way you tell me things
They can cut off my voice
Like your expert, fervent shredder
You can make me feel like my bubbled words are voluminous, endless, stuck inside my mouth like toffee, sticky and sweet
But now I feel the scars of my heart and how I let it heal too fast
Before the wounds reopened…
I wanted yours to heal before mine.
Am I so cut up? Am I supposed to go on?
“No, you’re cute, not cut up,” you mumble under your breath, walking away.
I heard you!, I yell and you scoff but laugh anyway.
Not like how some might say I am the “office cut-up,”
I don’t play jokes
Especially not on you.
We laugh at the same jokes
It feels like a vibrant orchestra playing
An extended version of my favorite song
But how can we
Stop the cutting edge of phantasmagorical
Strain
From slicing off the voluminous
Rapture
Of us
When the creeping nightmares slip
Into our living room
And into the telephone lines
And I can’t reach you?
About the Creator
Melissa Ingoldsby
I am a published author on Patheos,
I am Bexley by Resurgence Novels
The Half Paper Moon on Golden Storyline Books for Kindle.
My novella The Job and Atonement will be published this year by JMS Books
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Comments (3)
Oh this was so emotional! I loved it so much!
Or twas it I was never reached, not once sought, never wanted?
Incredible job 😉❤️