scarlet winter
smwinter.bsky.social
scarlet winter
@smwinter.bsky.social
i write sometimes
memories shrouded
in sandstorm and hurricane
forecast: light drizzle
my childhood bedroom;
picking through a debris-field
of wasted decades
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
fog covered mirror
displays only an outline;
shadowed eyes and lips
what remains of her,
the indigestible parts–
gristle; stubborn spite
#7syllablesentence
#wraith

she’s a wraith of who she was
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
inland seam measures
roughly fifty feet across
with an unknown depth
November 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
quiet eyes betray
twisted limbs, ancient instinct
an outpour of us
October 22, 2025 at 6:26 AM
oh, little flower
drifting away on life's stream
won't you bloom once more?
October 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
cerulean glow
of eventide revealing
lightning in a jar
July 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
metamorphic bones
hewn into fossil strata
remembrance entombed
ashes remember;
pyroclastic memory
shaped like calcined bone
body-impression in ash
old heat
and running hæm
in scented shafts

skin-gulper
wreathed in shreds
edelweiss,
ivory,
and the mounting star

shoulder-met in sodium
empty
saw-light
July 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
deadpan moonlit breath
a shuffle in the sheets; she's
so distantly close
mutual silence,
tacit communication–
she smiles; leans closer
Someone
who knows
the language
of your silence.
June 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
bowie knife blisters
heated edge held to the palm
replenishing touch
a slip of the blade;
laceration patterning
edge-kissed fingertips
Knives reward Carelessness with Kisses
May 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
gift of the orchard

oh, sweetly sour sensation

oof ouch my mouth hurts
full of citrus nourishment ^-^
May 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
another night of basking in a dream
sightless silence slipping in between
May 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
asunder, the sound;
gilded gears grinding in greed
are aptly parted
ornate artifice,
components corroded to
immobility
machinic, unloved
cogs and springs reduced to rust
oxygenated
April 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
a blank book beckoning;
vacant verses vexing me
unstrung syllables
lie lifeless, in a heap of
broken images
March 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
starlight's winking eyes
sunswept clouds shadow the moon
creeping tides arise
February 17, 2025 at 11:05 AM
nest these weathered bones
though flesh and feathers have flown
heart and head now rest
January 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
shattered space in the cupboard lingers
dust and ashes; both dead ringers
January 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM