By Jeremy Cardinale
Hear me I
Calling you?
Show what’s astray?
Slow don’t dismay
Tick-tock-tick-tock!
Ready?
Sunflower’s all alone
Little Fawn cannot
Vindicate
Radiate
Advocate
Faker! Faker!
Yikes Others!
Blue’s an agitator
Red’s muted Yes
True antlers!
Attract their shades
Not my fears!
Uh-oh, forest crack
Unbeliever? Touch
The fr-fr-fracture!
Afraid! Afraid!
We’s induced!
What faults?
Legs harped!
Ears blackened!
Arms crooked!
Head’s dement!
Eye smell lies!
My fellow carcasses,
Dying yellow’s now meadowed!
Oh? They feels? No…
Pretend, pretend, pretend
Like the day will never end!
Masked yellow masquerading,
The others do not for I
Fading the cold
Heart churns
Now we split!
World’s dripping, drip, dripped
Hue’s a-bleeding
Red flaunting!
Blue reigning!
Blurred fiends low ‘n high—
Crack.
See. See? See!
We’s tolds you!
A stumbled fawn
Caught along the fractured.
Yellow’s pride falsed
Dead like
Phony-whinies’ cries
Jeremy Cardinale is a deaf-born writer with cochlear implants. Born and raised in Staten Island, New York, Jeremy Cardinale is a student at Wagner College. He enjoys jamming out in marching band and choir. Between classes, Jeremy loves scribbling down ideas for stories filled with fantasy, magic, and slices of life. Outings in the woods and cheesy horror movies are his favorite pastimes. Cardinale’s debut piece, “Gluttonous Bones,” was published under Wingless Dreamer in their anthology, Descendants of Darkness.