~ My tears are not crocodile manipulative attention-seeking melodramatic-- do not trivialize my sorrows. Image Source: Billie Eilish...

~ The girl wreathes the perimeter of her mattress in salt that has fallen like meteors from her stormy eyes. Surely, this ritual will...

~ Tears percolate from round, fishbowl eyes, cheeks a sting with salt and loneliness. I barter with the deluge, hold my breath for as...