Eleni Gouliaras studied Creative Writing and History at York University. She now works for Markham Public Library helping customers, running a book club and hosting a story time for kids.
Proceed with caution Mind keeping me
up at night
persistent
breath
on my neck don't know
what to do prophetic
flaming
dreams
in
tongues tired
of being
such a way becoming only story
God once upon a time i touched your name between my tongue and the wet, hot ceiling of my mouth kneeling, calling from the belly of my love i can't lift off the page River i`m held something`s held over given options refusing each one pleading worst case scenario containing containment containing containment and breaking ability to contain flowing down a river exhaling an endless vocabulary
Wave crash into and over boundaries mind and matter tongue refusing prayer swallowing a new worship
Pill nightly dissolving cooling chest ache fever put to rest lift to present Wiring growing weary reliance tangled contorted leveling up collapsing down and needing needing needing am i a devil to be tamed?
Mirror a devil to be tamed edging towards uncertainty feeling around for reassurances cracking open to universe diving into a two-way mirror shattering through this unoriginal sin
