I Have Never Been Shy

At Fourteen, My Sister Sailed Away From Me Into A Place I’d Never Been. In The Walls Of My Sex There Was Horror And Blood, In The Walls Of Hers There Were Windows.

Your First Kiss Is Destiny Knocking.

Hey, Ocean Eyes,” My Father Said. “where’d You Go On Us?

I Had Always Been In Love With Him. I Counted The Lashes Of Each Closed Eye. He Had Been My Almost, My Might Have Been, And I Did Not Want To Leave Him

My Name Is Salmon, Like The Fish; First Name, Susie. I Was Fourteen When I Was Murdered.