YOUR ABSENCE IS A MEETING PLACE, BY Niamh BURNS |
meet me on the split skin of my palm where you touched me— meet me in the fractured light; where the bridges of my tongue have split from screaming. meet me in the noise of your mouth humming like a sweet thing. meet me at the edge of morning before we lost it all. meet me where the bones are soft. meet me in the scattered light where everything we love is softly burning. |
Niamh Burns is a queer, non-binary Irish-Canadian poet, fiction writer, and philosophy student. Their work has been featured in Across The Margin (selected best fiction 2019), Visitant Literary Journal, and The Anti-Languorous Project.