How to Unremember a Lover
A poem by Zlatan Hanityo
i. nebula necrophilia thighs frolicking in sticky sheen rose blood sticking further to skin her voice returns cosmic residue praying to the magma of venus bedazzled blood, an eternal flood she is classified as a genus ii. purgatory and when the spectral barrier breaks liminality between birthright and foreign she sighs, gaze imploring to be averted from your oxidized face of aged minerals held between your fabled fingers are mourning morsels of meteor gravel an ephemeral, extraterrestrial lover accompanying the friction of stasis iii. dismembered domesticity dogmatic and deer-paralyzed sun leaks onto my strawberry slippers lifeless and homespun honey the womb of a waxing moon sacrificing somebody’s daughter please, bludgeon your head like a mother iv. tactless fornication deformed monsters materializing between your two-sided eyes nurtured, churned, boiled to oblivion seizing the shard of spine you have left on a neatly folded mattress v. eternal extinction you will forget her you will forget the days spent picking at her memories placing them on the mirrored mantel her dreams are dead like taxidermy her diaphragm moltened by devil chimes and she’s standing over the carcass of time and she slips between your toenails but you try to forget her.
Zlatan Hanityo (he/him) is a fifteen-year-old high school student and amateur writer. He is based in Indonesia.