Presumptuous and proud/i am my blood

Presumptuous and Proud / I am my Blood

dylan buried my brain stem in the woods

he left my womb for me but i didn’t want it

i hid it in the sheets of his bed watched the blood as it soaked through

it for a moment before i ran back to my street and

like a dumb dog jumped into the fire for warmth

licked at my wounds and i burned through to the nerve

cleaned my skin raw ridding myself of any loss

girls so red and unclean scorched down to nothing

can get presumptuous some things just aren’t worth knowing

About the Author

Riley James Russo is a teenaged author split between Ohio and Pennsylvania who aims to capture the human condition through horror-adjacent poetry, novel, and the odd screenplay. She has self-published one novel, Good Dinner, available on Amazon.