The skull smiles, even as fleshly lips sag and tears trickle from eyes soft in their beds. It is harder to see behind the skin, to see—or perhaps better to hear—the jawbones grinding like tectonic plates, molars hungry for tension to teethe upon, for something resilient, salty, endless. Most words cannot be consumed and swallowed by the back teeth, for the brain is either asleep or daydreaming and, in either case, doesn’t pay proper attention. It is from this recklessness that words often pas ...
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The skull smiles, even as fleshly lips sag and tears trickle from eyes soft in their beds. It is harder to see behind the skin, to see—or perhaps better to hear—the jawbones grinding like tectonic plates, molars hungry for tension to teethe upon, for something resilient, salty, endless. Most words cannot be consumed and swallowed by the back teeth, for the brain is either asleep or daydreaming and, in either case, doesn’t pay proper attention. It is from this recklessness that words often pas ...
Tamara Kaye Sellman has had her writing (poetry, short stories, nonfiction) published widely and internationally (US, Canada, Mexico, UK, Malaysia). Most recently, her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Terrain, Serendipity, The Hiss Quarterly, Cantaraville 2, Long Story Short, 13th Moon, Susurrus, Literary Mama, Cezanne's Carrot, The Clackamas Literary Review, the Collections, Fetishes & Obsessions anthology, the Freak Lightning anthology, Sea Stories, Voices in the Dark, and kaleidowhirl. Would you like to support our contributors? As a subscriber, you could use your subscription fee to pay this author for their work, as well as receive lots of extra subscriber perks!
