W. Hasuki - Breaker
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never have you asked
how much death
carried
in a single wave
until you are
on that boat
holding on
to a bag full
of red flowers
her body now
a white cloud
submerging
painfully slow
so you think of her
as an ink breaks
and the ocean
a blank page
but when you’ve
built the courage
to look again
there is barely
a smudge,
a couple
of torn petals—
ripples away
Artwork: Submerged by Audrey T. Carroll
Audrey T. Carroll (she/they) is the author of What Blooms in the Dark (ELJ Editions, 2024), The Gaia Hypothesis (Alien Buddha Press, 2024), Parts of Speech: A Disabled Dictionary (Alien Buddha Press, 2023), and In My Next Queer Life, I Want to Be (kith books, 2023). Her writing has appeared in Lost Balloon, CRAFT, JMWW, Bending Genres, and others. She is a bi/queer/genderqueer and disabled/chronically ill writer. She serves as a Fiction Editor for Chaotic Merge Magazine and Editor-in-Chief of Genrepunk Magazine. She can be found at http://AudreyTCarrollWrites.weebly.com and @AudreyTCarroll on Twitter/Instagram.