Textiles and Trauma

Megan DeBussey

Lloyd, Andrew, Jose

They’re all the same

Names woven in shrieks and thrashes

Caressing horrors.

Softly, softly,

Speak softly.

Threads of nylon nightmares,

Joseph’s technicolored rape

And patterns of gold and trauma,

Shrink, shrink.

Shrink, shrink

Shrink, shrink

Shrink, shrink