Poems from chasing-laurel
L.K. Chase is a writer with way too many ideas and way too little time on her hands. When she isn't hunched over calculus (a subject she doesn't like to admit that she adores), she can be found sleeping, listening to metal, sneering at her favorite cat, or on the kitchen floor, eating mint chocolate chip ice cream. Out of the carton. But only at night. Mom hates it when she eats out of the carton.
L.K. Chase prides herself in her pen name. She thinks it sounds snazzy.
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Gently, I bleed.Red beads roll carefully down my arms,Clumping at long hairs;Orange races down my neck andPools at the dip of my collarbone...
did you know
that an atom
is a galaxy?
the nucleus, dense with balancing
neutrons and humming with
protons, is an infinitesimal star.
and...
Nestled behind bones
that can be broken by
sticks and stones,
A rhythm
made of flapping wings
and plucking strings,
of raindrops
hitting...
Great orchids bloomAgainst the humid, foggy gloom,Seedlings eat the deadAnd on my skin rolls angry redAs army ants crush my bonesMarching...