saltwater healing
Words by Lucia Lane
Content Warning: contains mentions of religious trauma
let me take your rosary apart,
an offering.
return the pearls to the ocean
slowly dissolving,
do you promise not to sin?
salt circle surrounding the earth,
when she cries
tears turn to holy water,
a baptism in trauma.
use your body as parchment,
rewriting the ending,
we wait for ink to dry
