top of page
Search
  • Writer's pictureNeon Mariposa Magazine
    • Mar 2, 2020
    • 1 min read

restless in pieces by Vanessa Maki

when you think of the dead / you don’t necessarily imagine / people coming back as

zombies / who tear flesh from bones / or munch on skin/ you think of decaying

corpses / if they were buried / in my case / i have died / & been brought back to life /

i’m an undead zombie / my body is in tact but my heart is/ restless / in pieces / how do

i reassemble it? / can i use crazy glue to repair it? / maybe stick pins in it / to keep it

together / scrape away the decay / scrape away the scabs / how can i remedy such a

dilemma ? / or will the rest of me / follow my heart




Vanessa Maki is a queer writer, artist & blk feminist whose work has appeared or will appear in various places. She has self-published chapbooks & has several chapbooks forthcoming or out this year: the chosen one (Animal Heart Press), sweet like limes (Bone & Ink Press), decayed state (marlskarx) & another final girl (Roaring Junior Press).

15 views0 comments

Recent Posts

See All

the cankerous grackles in the parking lots swarming in synchronicity like a biblical plague they don’t scare easy no matter how mean you make your face instead they congregate right in your path and t

across the room from me, my guitar pulses bright colors, throbs dreams I can’t ignore. I think about sleep but the music’s too loud. my guitar sprouts lilies not intended to twine, purrs of birds I’ll

Hope to Thaw If I were frozen in the ground, I’d hope to thaw. I’m left with muddy footprints and sticky fingers- I’m a thief. I stole what I needed to survive: a wet tongue, a Celtic cross against a

bottom of page