there is a tear here, where things scramble out in to the world and roam. there is a tear where his mouth used to be and he cannot find enough fingers to put in it. he cuts them with his teeth and they escape him. they crawl around. there is a tear where her eye used to be and it leaks thorns down her face. break the skin where its tight along her cheek, opens her jawline before she can speak. there is a tear in the sky and it bleeds on everything.
and the little one breaks down into pieces, crumbles before me. i scoop her up and try to put her back together but i have no hands so i do it with the stumps of my wrists and my teeth fall into her face like tears and the thorns have ripped open her sides and i bleed on everything, i just can’t stop bleeding.