Janey A

“A hand pressed lightly against
my neck. Lips grazing
the apple of my bottom lip.
Your name like a tongue
over the ridges of my teeth.
Your body like a downpour
with me dancing underneath it.”
― Caitlyn Siehl, Crybaby

“The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“I worshipped the myth I made of you, but I'm off my knees / now.”
― Traci Brimhall

“Sometimes I imagine what it’d be like to show you I’m alive. The thrill of it. The sharp inhale. The nerve exposed. The bone.”
― Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman