it's 11:11, make a wish
suffused with cherried glows of nowherekansas, static burrows in your skin,
home rendering in the slow distance quartzed by garish glares
in your rented bedroom, cloaking yourself in corpsecold and walls blanked over
and plastered in chrome as you flip through out-of-context compilations
of nights like these, brackish trickling down your throat when you try to breathe —
your eyes unfocused on the edges of memory steeping in muskblue
with a ghost sheen. is it really the light that’s so loud, or is it loneliness
cloned by a hallucination of dawn, pearled clouds choking on fog?
and now? you know how it goes: blink three times and you’ll be home with him
playing no man’s sky, where he coasts by starspecks in fixed space
before quickdiving into a black hole. don’t worry, it’s safe spaghettification
deemed by game logic, warping through the certainty of cerulean beams,
clear skies on a planet evergreen in its offerings. its snowy terrain glistening
periwinkle and dreamwhite, in a way that makes you yearn for nostalgia,
lined by trees and their sprawling branches—he names them after you with a promise
to find you in every dimension, and you wish for it as the night heels into dawn.
Beeper Peddle is a writer and healer living on the East Coast. She lives with her partner and their beloved soul puppy. Beeper writes about sorrows, lies, and deep loves. When you read her work, you will dip down into her heart and end up in all manner of body parts. Should you find yourself reflected in these words, it is merely coincidence; however, it does not surprise her you share the same heart. Find her at bethpeddle.com and @beeperpeddle on Twitter and Instagram
tommy wyatt (he/they) lives with his boyfriend and three fiendishly goofy cats. his poetry can be found in Fatal Flaw, manywor(l)ds, MAYDAY, Passengers Press, fifth wheel press, and others. they are the author of REALLY AFRAID (Querencia Press), DITCHLAPSE (Querencia Press); NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL HORROR! (Gutslut Press); So, Who’s Courage? (Bullshit Lit.); and others.
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