Anastasia

"Even after all this time these things I remember entering our room finding it dark save for a single sunbeam falling across your body stark contrast against the black sheet even now I can smell grap..."

"it began s l o w l y self-protection gone awry let hope fall away beauty is pain trust nothing salt the earth until love can't live pain and fear and joy compressed into dull grey vacuum sometimes I ..."

"if I'd known noticed the obvious transparently fatal decisions, actions, words maybe... maybe... too late. time is a treadmill can't walk backward cure the wounds already inflicted unravel a tape..."

"I am a marionette the puppeteer's dead I hang inert strings tangled over the shadowy rafter hollow, wooden eyes to the hardwood quiet stage dust settling in my painted hair I long for someone to twitc..."

"when she left I climbed into this little box closed the lid blotted out the sky so I wouldn't see her face in the stars in glittering twilight hear her voice birdsong on an ocean breeze feel her lip..."

"heartbeat thrumming silent flutter lashes brush tender moon-pale flesh oceanic rhythm rosewater blood infrared telegraph whispers direction guides me, trembling to the mouth of flowersOk, this is a pi..."