TRINITY MOHR
is a double major in Communication and English
with intentions to go
to grad school for
Library & Information Studies. She runs the club UB Poets,
so if you’re interested
in joining, email her at trinitym@buffalo.edu.
Porcelain Relationship
I’m familiar with his porcelain contours
Smooth and cold to the touch
Lately I find myself down on my knees for him
Bruises forming against the cold tile floor
Gagging on his bleach cologne
Causing my throat to burn with the exhale
Choking as he forces me to hold my breath
Tears springing to the corners of my eyes
Until a release comes that I refuse to swallow down.
A Final Act of Desecration (1)
i’m sitting outside watching a murder
crows turned to vultures
circling the dead cat below
swooping down to pick at the exposed fibula
corpse quickly becoming only fur and bone
once a godly creature
but these vultures have no such respect for
any of her nine lives
no remembrance of her womanly purrs
that once craved affection
now this corner of the parking lot
behind the bar has become her stage
A final act of desecration.
A Final Act of Desecration (2)
vultures
circl e
the exposed
no respect
of woman
h e craved
this
desecration.
crows turned to vultures
circling the dead cat below
own to pick at the exposed fibula
vultures have no such respect for
any of her nine lives
no remembrance of her womanly purrs
that once craved affection
now this corner of the parking lot
A final act of desecration.