On The Resistance I Met Creating You, Here,
even moonlight deals cold strokes of pain
to your temples, so I
lick loose your braids
and tremble as
impaled deer
scamper out from
between follicles, mash blood-fevered
hooves into the sides of your face. And
while I pinch everything clean, let me
ask you this:
How many ways can you hurt
yourself on the sound “alone?”
If I pull
my jaw down, you glare,
shake out
the knives,
then do you get
the picture?
Alexa Theofanidis attends St. John’s School in Houston, Texas, where she is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the literary arts journal Imagination. Her work appears in Rising Phoenix Review, The Loud Journal, The Scribe Review, and elsewhere, in addition to having been recognized by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Currently, Alexa reads poetry for COUNTERCLOCK Journal.