Connor Orrico writes

Healing/Haunted

remembering the ghosts of joy

offers ephemeral escape

but is its sweetness worth the pain

of tearing out sutures again

Connor Orrico writes

Sleepless

monsters

nightly --

paroxysm

of language

languish --

maelstroms

made

in my mind

sentence

my spirit

to the bonds

of a body

without

a name