Congratulations to Tavi Stallings, whose work “Covet Me” was selected as the inaugural Green Blotter Halloween Contest winner for poetry submissions!
Covet Me
“Before you slip into unconsciousness, I’d like to have another kiss”
-From Crystal Ship by The Doors
Till my last dying day
I’ll fear, knowing the unknown
Of something I’ve never wondered
Or something you’ve always wondered
What will happen once I lay
to bed alone?
Covet my dead body, covered
In a sea of black unheard
What will you do
when the night falls?
I’ll long to be next to you,
but only my spirit calls
covet my bones
and call them your own