HOODS UP

BARD

[noun]

1. (formerly) a person who composed and recited epic or heroic poems, often while playing the harp, lyre, or the like. 

2. one of an ancient Celtic order of composers and reciters of poetry. 

3. any poet. 

4. the bard, William Shakespeare.

in winter, you can still smell the fields burning. there’s a trail of dirt through your hallway, leading to the shovel you hid in your closet. maybe I invented you, frankenstein-like, took all the parts people had left behind and made something monster. love isn’t always easy. this is the poem where they’re laid to rest; let’s take these old darlings and give them peace, an unmarked grave. a ditch in the side of the road. lay down their bodies and cover them with salt. no ghosts will rise tonight, the dead stay exactly buried.   this year, neither blood nor body count will keep me still.  

“Bridge” by Woshibai

“Carve” by Woshibai

leaving an empty room