Poems by Palaces P.

Our Lover

Our lover told me that we’re cute together because we have similar tastes Isn’t it poetry? How profoundly he’s come to know me? Used to hold my hair when I’d overdrink; now, you hold it for him

& the light leaves my mouth & my skin tastes your teeth & it’s blood down my throat & it’s blood like red stars

Of Mice and Men

They are scared to look at me since when they do, they don’t often stop I joke around offense and they tremble Something flowing, turning upward in them, a shining flask

I’m tired of writing  of any violence except that one

It’s sad, I think how I spent a young life afraid of them Now, yes, thank God I do drink and enjoy

Leisurely Ramble

i found a picture of me after one of the times you made me cry but looking back it just looks like i got facefucked something you told me i don’t want because you told me what i want and like and you had to be more interesting but, look at me,  i’m writing poems like these now

do you think it’s because i didn't push your thoughts down the way that you’d do mine yes, just like you did, so many times, far too many facefucks for me— too much for my hands to count?

anyway, i got mine when we spoke the first time in months when i came to you all the way gory with my hurt you said not to contact you again, but i thought  that was weird 'cause i could only swear i wasn’t knocking at your door, i was trying to leave a dent

Wolves in My Kitchen

every day i get up at dawn, just to self-harm feeling like the new wolf in my kitchen—

not the one i saw when i was the only one in the house tripping out

and i see everything that i knew  of myself was just delusion,

needles and pins waking my limbs from the outside in—

so, i will go all inside out again disorderly

Boiling Water

i couldn’t be an actress, anymore; touching all of those feelings, all of the time,  i felt too raw that’s the reason i used to avoid your eyes and i cover my mouth, clench the other hand, when i abruptly recite A Philosophical Enquiry Into  the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

i have poems made up of unused titles about you

Palaces is Editor-in-Chief of Wrongdoing Magazine and an Editor at a few other publications, including CHEAP POP and Walled Women Magazine. She’s placed her own work in Eclectica Magazine, Maudlin House, BlazeVOX, Witch Craft Magazine and many others. She has a BAH from Queen’s University, and she is working on a budding book series. You can read more about her at pascalepotvin.comor @pascalepalaces on Twitter.