Junebugs by Phynne~ Belle I want to cut my heart out of my chest be my own offering, to you, because you would have me, because you look at me with eyes that want to nourish all of me and fill in all my gaps. I inhaled the starlight that got caught in my hair as we ran like little children in total abandonment, we ran through skies turning their lights off one by one, last flickers of lilac and rose as they feigned sleep, we ran through wet sand that nipped our toes and tried to swallow our feet, we ran, meeting waves, trusting even if we could not see them in the dark, and then we stopped, astonished, as the world around our calves bioluminesce. I exhaled your starlight, I exhaled it regretfully, because it was fire In my belly, Junebugs kissed your drooping eyelids.
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Phynne~Belle is a San Francisco Bay Area poet, writer, and co-director of The Poetry Global Network. She had her poetry included in two poetry anthologies in 2021, Sinew: Ten Years of Poetry in the Brew and The Bronx Memoir Project Anthology Vol. V. This year, she has contributed to PGN’s first anthology, Kaleidoscopoetry, which includes works from poets across the globe. Phynne has one poetry collection titled, Some Days, Here. You can also find her holding her a bimonthly online open mic on 2nd & 4th Thursdays, as well as organize other poetry events and programs through her Phynnecabulary platform that endeavor to make the literary arts (poetry in particular) accessible widely. Phynne used to be a superhero of creatures big and small in a past life.
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