Batter
sometimes i wonder
what it'd be like
to turn my wrists back
crack them open like an egg
watch them sputter
skin shards breaking into the bowl
veins popping like
broken rubber
i am nothing new
just red velvet
and
melted butter
Photo by Annie Spratt
Diana Clark
Diana Clark is an elephant enthusiast and an MFA fiction candidate at UNCW, with special love for LGBTQIA+ literature, magical realism, and sci-fi. You can find her reading about pirates in Wilmington, North Carolina with her cat, Emily D.
