Content Warning: Self-harm, Suicide

If Loki’s worth is inherent, then perhaps ours is, too.

how voraciously I will hunt in every minutiae of life a hint of my dearly departed

Neither of us can comfortably bend our minds around the gap between leaving and having been left behind, even for a brave possibility.

Content Warning: Suicide

I have been visiting prisons as long as I can remember and have lost count of the number of times my picture may have been taped to the wall of a cell. Visits Upstate meant early morning departures on the weekends. Trips to the County meant mostly middle of the day and evenings. Geography lessons of heartache experienced through small towns and cartographies of captivity. Same waiting spaces. Same security wanding and invasions. Folding your arms over your underwire is supposed to silence the screeching of the hand-held metal detector. Some correctional officers invested in showing that you are just another number attached to the number of someone deemed less than human.