by Cassidy Vickers-Jones
Today I am strong.
Like I could reach into the night
and with one perfect claw
pluck a star from the sky,
like a yielding eye.
Hold it between my teeth.
Feel the heat
of a million million burning years.
Swallow.
Let it slide down my aching throat.
Melt every piece of broken glass
inside me
into molten slag,
glowing, radiant.
The incandescent flow cutting out between ribs,
slowly,
like magma forging a new landscape
using nothing but violence.
Leaving the pit inside me.
Glass settling and cooling on skin.
And I'm here, with claws and teeth
and new scales of iridescent glass.
Today I am strong.
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Cassidy K lives in Australia on stolen land. She always dreamt of being a monster, but decided writing to be the currently more feasible option. She uses her writing as a way to catch and explore all of the great and terrible things swirling in her head.
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