metastasis

Rachel M. Croce

puberty– the transformative awkwardness
of self-annihilation 
loose skin bursts, pimples posture 
always with embarrassment
voices arch toward otherworldliness
tones crack open, the evolution
this is the summer of nipple buds and curiosity
lingering infidelity braves tolerance
expanding thighs and breaking hearts– that hidden
corner of the woods where adolescence
weeds itself through incomprehensibility
this isn’t teamwork,
this is a kind of eldritch in me

*Written from the following prompt:
Self-annihilation
Incompehensivibility 
Eldritch
Metastasis 
Transformation 
Infidelity 
Otherworldiness 
Incomprehensibility
Teamwork
Curiosity 
Evolution