Nightheart

Nightheart

VT

19 years old

Posts

  • marie curie

    Marie curie’s grief is buried 
    In a lead-lined coffin, 
    Thick and unyielding 
    The taste of dirt on her tongue 

    I want to dig her up and ask her 
    How to get over the things you love 
  • your poem

    I am trying to write a poem about a tree, 
    I look outside and there it is, another tree,
    There are trees everywhere, really,
    Can you tell that i have never been good at writing
    What other people want me to write? 
  • an open letter

    (Inspired by Allen Ginsberg) 

    America, you’re scaring me. America, it’s not funny to turn out the lights like that. 
    America my mom told me you’re fragile. America, there’s a man with buffalo skin dancing 
  • Matar (to kill)

    I am doing history homework 
    when I watch the Capitol fall. 
                      (Ironic, isn't it? History always repeats itself.) 

    We were trying to watch the 
  • to love a villain

    The girl is the most beautiful thing 
    You have ever seen, oh she gleams like the knife that 
    Your dai used to cut up the lambs on eid e ghorban with, would you 
    Sacrifice yourself when she asked you to? 
  • curiositas

    does it anger you, i wonder, 
    when i do not write of prejudice? 

    I think perhaps you love devouring my words, 
    but only when they are about you, 

    what is american culture but masochism,