Babydoll

Graphic, alludes to child abuse, patriarchy, religious trauma and more

Babydoll

Your fingers:
Mannish.
Slaughterhouse.
Insist where they stick.

Each stab — a wish to rob my fertility.

The baby:
Roach-parasite;
its cries hammered into
the artificial womb.

Each stab a Persephone-Underworld plunge.

Still you brush my bleach-bottle curls.
Bristles scratch the mole-rat scalp.

Blue-velvet babydoll laid out:
rouge, lipstick, spectacles.

Gunpowder puff—
strikes my cheeks.

Poppy-bullet lipstick—
splits the cupid-bow.

Scalpel, barbed glasses—
pinch the bridge.

All this: a devotion.

An altar birthed in sadist hands.