• By An Vu (she/her)
  • Art “Patchwork Bugs” by Jiji Benhaddad (she/her)

everything falls onto me
it clouds my vision
but it’s sickly sweet
and i want more, more
i reach for the source

it burns

it drips

and it hardens
i’m covered in it
i can’t escape, i’m cocooned
but my body is warm

the swarm approaches
unrelenting and pitiless
a hollow existence
i know nothing
and neither do they
there is warmth in their movement
harmony in their flight
they prepare for descent
erratic, aggressive, vindictive

gentle violence
tender, loving machine

savor me slowly,

devour me completely.