sometimes it feels stuck to the back of my chest
as if it has caught one of its many blue threads
on the door handle of a room I’ve just left
sometimes it feels still, and lurks like a mad ghost
cursing its haunt in the long well of my throat
as I am trying to speak gently to it
sometimes it feels hard. It tightens with each thump
and one day I will not be able to wriggle even my
littlest finger inside it
a red knot
I can’t unpick
ataraxicat 