My Absentee Spine

A poem

Rowen Veratome
Scrittura
Published in
Mar 26, 2022

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Photo by Joyce McCown on Unsplash

My spine is Cannibal:
it eats its own space

when there is no space
remaining a bubble
will wrap itself, travel

& my vertebra will
refugee to somewhere
inconceivable.

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Rowen Veratome
Scrittura

They/them. Perpetual student. Recovering from PTSD. Writes philosophically, formally, poetically, playfully, politically, personally, with love, ad infinitum.