Paperweight Poetry

I knew a girl.  Who fell in love with a boy who snapped her heart in half with the gracefulness of  bread broken at communion and wore a mask of forgetfulness for his sin he even looked away when she called his name,  the next day in the hallway like her  acknowledgement was too much to bear So later she stood in the same spot of ignorance and dumped a gallon of gasoline over her head so it doused her body, dribbling down her limbs she shook under the cold thick layer of flammability her hand trembling as the match pressed  so hard into the side of the box that it almost cracked he turned around as she screamed,  "Now you see me?" and swiped.  I knew a girl.  -anna sluder

And sometimes the chaos runs together like wine But when it comes to avarice I swallow mine.  -anna sluder

I weep semi colons between the irrelevant thing I wish to say and the thing that I must say.  -anna sluder

And so maybe I think  That if I set the whole world on fire You'll finally see me.  -anna sluder

I heard a story of a brown woman Who stood in the water that belonged to her With her hands harmoniously raised in the air  Whose eyes were set on fire for an entire minute As she screamed "I love you" to the white man who did it.  -anna sluder