StarCat/CatStar

Storytelling
Lemon-juice truth
burns through a kiss
& your narrative carves
talismans from our bodies.
The skin between my breasts
dissolves with the dregs
of stories we share for the sake
of becoming us; ego
snaps my neck, each whiplash
syllable catches in my throat, until I blow
a joke into your cloud of smoke
& it tickles the cheek
of the secret you hunched
under half-lies, the you sheltered
in untold myth, releasing your ginflushed
regret to the rain.
Author bio: Kate Garrett was born thirtysomething years ago in
southwestern Ohio, but has lived in the UK since 1999. She writes poetry
and flash fiction, and edits other people's poetry and flash fiction. Her work
has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her latest pamphlet, The
Density of Salt, is forthcoming from Indigo Dreams Publishing in 2016. In
real life, Kate lives in Sheffield with another poet, a cat named Mimi, and
three too-clever trolls who call her "mum". On the web she lives here:
www.kategarrettwrites.co.uk.
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