https://www.blush-lit.com/2025#/melissa-violette-aliz/

choking on chrysanthemum merciless chamber
fragrant descent promise rigid decree
command forsworn lovers fragrance

tidings holy lament scathed knots
inharmonious lark vaulty heavens

dismissed from thee harsh grey iris
grey pearlescent spheres grey matter
visceral potent growth embalmed

torn woe hysterically moaning
a sweet farewell

a field a dust bowl a drought
i cannot lick the sword
i cannot drink from this

scurvy latched fervently minimized
some supernatural intention

a periwinkle bouquet
thrown upon stars upon cupids courting
to breathe thin atmosphere of mars

unknowable argon conquered upon
vision goes grayscale infrared green

i blink only to see optic white silhouettes
ultraviolet the moon phoebe one arrives
sundered to the cassini division

where you belong slipping amidst
fluted humour borrowed resolve

the palm open the palm empty the palm meant
to hold fried through light sedulous beam
transcendent gloom

collect the blood profound porosity silks softly absorb
wire the jaw shut with strands of our finest linens

kindly extend our giving gift beseech
a wrought grave devotional void

once cracked veneer never after
a desperate smile of thee exposes
nothing but hanging nerve roots

your spit crimson daring timeless
saturated echo abruptly withdrawn

crane your neck endlessly
you do your best look beyond yet

an innocent ribbon cracks
the cervical spine the brainstem
the body's light switch

clarified provided for a bountiful
heavens where you beg for belonging
or a grip as tight as your own

a vapid starvation that furls your entirety
a preventable wreckage

delicacy intimacy shall not dare to consume
stealth fragility cowardice onyx dagger 

the stretcher cradles you
marvelous accelerant absolves
what may be guilt beshrew yet

non-combustible materials shall burn
yet some things never become ash
no matter how flammable

what does the vault protect
what have you locked
how do i have this key
what is this vice your vice
and yet i had the key

what defiant confrontation could serve
an ailing pulse drowsy veins cold flesh
testified through the wedding veil
that’s my womb in the fucking toilet

the petals of a dying rose
spy upon treasured frail hopes grip
tightly to thorns of an acacia branch
how they soothe one

the sixteen ribs of the lamb
a shroud a banished disturbance
rouse thee daughter of lucia
without eyes bountiful sight
what burden you must know seeing

an oxen would drag your flesh
gauged your eyes too intercession
for understanding

the wood that houses you crumbles atop weak
with fungi buried one will weep a dishclout
could he be redeemed

take my letter let it wreck you
pathetic confounding shriek 

rotting calla lily thwarted
three fates three graces three doves
cerberus singing the song of the bell witch

i need this candelabra this lantern more than anything
for fear of you fear of the unlucky night of chance
the winter solstice longer than any night

a haunting enema unsubstantial
you suck honey a lasting sweetness
lest not forget a kiss a strange plasma
embellished death at dawn

the brass awakens you a threat shrunken prosperity tapestries
the saddle the donkey the cattle the mountain goat the most
precious pony a herd of sheep run to you the kangal collar
points us towards shepherds satellite

we are not enemies
departed a righteous
tortured door your belief
in tears death corrodes
scraping metal shanks

chains dragging pale flag abhorred
industrious what sort of accident
have we encountered one without you

punished by knowing sheathe discord
for one is not built for crushing contradiction
maxima fibrous a maiden for she is lost
leash the pitbulls mistaken cuckold yet

you are the one who runs furthest
from your wounds a body taught with gauze

where am i running when i am running without you
the reaper the fungus the bone the thigh of the horse?

shadows of a chandelier on your lawn
disparate retroactive silhouette obliterated vicinity

flimsy mudpuppies convulsing midwife
on blistered pavement shrapnels

harrowing caress blue lamp
illuminated solitary marsh orchid

technicolor fountains
zip ties at your ankles

bewildered candor
frozen bouquet clasped
between two hands
underwater

spider eats the web
man eats earth

decanted canines fascia elongated
vexed passion ballast destiny

swamped scaffolding
flooded cellar doors that don’t exactly shut
foundations cracked

what is absorbent enough

odette’s secrets
burning rituals
open season

stepford wives
submerged in liquid latex
tender beehive

keys through the carotid
catatonic in the corvette
capitulation in the sun

fissured lungs straddled tapeworms
devout coagulation blunted dilation

courageous shunt distended ivory
tassels of rat tails nightshades
unchanged maimed tenor hideous

plurality ruptured biting cruelty
punctuated filth arachnoiditis superstar
horny for asbestos potent bliss
rendered to beg vaulted spawn
binding centipede

mulled loose teeth
in chiffon cake

you have a pliable tongue
keloid corridors

saturnian haemolacria
brine visage insides of it
insides of you infinite botulism

obtuse underbelly aura
guts tied in a bow

liquified covens undone
breeding resuscitation
greasy sheen scarlet
the pigment of endurance

siphon rubies amid labias
flaccid dignity a carcass
leaking crypt sirens
bleached trophy

precisions atrocious
halogen bulbs

medicalized death
sanitized death

parasitic crescendo
protoplasm premonition

frantic overflow

vast bust of earth
i need cardigans
and cleavage

contoured generosity
succling stockings a parade

ore incinerated
cramped putrid
prayer of anonymity

pet the prairie dogs
where the trampoline
and the fence meets
the highway

dobermans shadowed
overbite supple whimpering

orgasmic amnesia
reflexive callous

wounded prisms
darling crooning country
sheathe of mud on the altars