There are molecules in her bones
in love with auto-mitosis.
Phosphate lips grit
against teeth to pull out
her soul, still healing;
/ stones don’t divide,
but damn, they’ll try anyways
she says, pressing a goodnight
onto my tongue.
Anastasia Jill (Anna Keeler) is a queer poet and fiction writer living in the southern United States. She is a current editor for the Smaeralit Anthology. Her work has been published or is upcoming with Poets.org, Cleaver Magazine, FIVE:2:ONE, Ambit Magazine, Drunk Monkeys, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Varnish Journal, and more.
Sweet Sorrow