Pseudopsychosis.

I slice the moon
curated in summer girls;
I name her for a death

Goosebones, I’d dream
I’d steal the sun
made of la-mancha 
I name her for a death
she is mine

fragile, heart breaking,
I died in April; daisies 
bone-soft, daddy is to the black bridge
the sea
the sun fell apart
I’m held by love

a crèche of the other 
menstruating roses
could not see this 

my own selfish sea
paper-babies 
supposed born as cancers
could not see this;
I couldn’t see this. I name her for a death,
mine
when I can’t forget 
mine
when I do
mine 
when I love her
mine 
where I’m loved.

I slice the moon
curated in summer girls;
I name her for a death

she’s mine.

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Posted for the dVerse MTB prompt: So today we shall write our poem using any style or meter as long as it contains:

1a. Epiphora (aka Epistrophe or Antistrophe). The end line repeats should for the most part be consecutive, although allowances are made for alternates as well as the use of the repeat word with variance. Employ repetitions with the maxim ‘ too often is too heavy’!

Maybe I cheated, but I wrote this 5/24/2021. It was just sitting in my notes, pretty much homeless, until I saw it fit most of the requirements for the prompt.

I just wasn’t bit by the poetry bug today. Someone put me in poetry prison and read me Anne Sexton.