jenny hickman

Almost

You drop

insults like salt

on fries.

Use “whore”

like salt

in wounds.

Display of power

insinuating my looseness

sinue and osseous

tissue

forced down by

your body weight

on top of my body

wait

for it to end.

Your words slung

like stones

sticks and bones.

Hurts most

coming from your

cherub mouth.

He almost breaks me,

almost breaks me.

Jennifer Hickman is an emerging writer out of Toronto, Canada. She has had her work appear in Writerly Magazine and Acorn Magazine. She completed an MA in English Literature from the University of Toronto. Loving all things arts, you can also find her gardening and taking in the wonders and splendors of nature in northern Ontario.