Madeleine Corley
Subtext
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I wanted you when I received Hi hello have you been veining migraines in my head like ice between side- walks in the winter expanding this act called me writing lately? was just that a play I disguised with fervent type my hyper- ventilating eyes darts thrown hastily from clenched fist You’re someone who I know from peonies from city drives at dusk from new shoes dawned when my dark got too thick and my soles too sodden will to offer back what I dug up the timber I logged and froze with what I believed was genuine love I know I keep pontificating dirt because I am leaking the mud grouts my gums these brimstone fires I spew critique and contrarian I was planted among undergrowth forgetting this vibrant was nothing before hollowed ideas that want was all I could survive off of give a seed the taunt of sap and she will allow stem growth in that rime of morning dew there is truth in some soil and thought I am windswept and cannot recall what I left under your fingernails what shade of soot I buried in the crook of your elbow as opposed to the longing that comes with autumn’s sleep I drove myself leafless after hope and if I thaw to empty forgiveness and I hear you spout it’s good or it’s bad I will pretend I am sleeping but if you knock and slough your icicle teeth I might unfurl in groves and for once I admit that I am wanting you like frostbite I value you |
Biography
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Madeleine Corley (she/her) is a poet by internal monologue and loves writing in confinement. She calls Ohio and Georgia and California and Ireland home. Her work has been / will be featured in Moonchild Magazine, Penteract Press, Okay Donkey, and others. She currently serves as Barren Magazine's Poetry Editor. You can find her on Twitter @madelinksi, on Instagram @wrotemadeleine, or on her website wrotemadeleine.com.
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