Jai Michelle Louissen
We Live With What Is Left
i sit up at three am and worry if love will pour over the mess i’m in
the dark splits its epithelial barrier and i cry into a phone hoping my
sister might catch it
we live with what is left
life transposing in that way
a skin of words barely touching
my mouth
little wads of time
singing the night to sleep
like another body
when morning comes, even the sun looks wrong
Jai Michelle Louissen is the EIC of a literary journal, The Winged Moon. Scottish, living in the Netherlands, with an education in literature, systemic therapy and meditation, she writes about identity, trauma and loss. Published recently in Poetry Scotland, Dust, Clarion you can follow her on X and bluesky IG @bornonadarkmoon.