with dirty hands

doesn’t belong

the “Keep Out
break into

your dark

INTRUDER

I'm a thief

I walk past


and into

and in love

to me

sign
your eyes

residential

with you who

of your stare


skull


whereyourthoughtsareflies/buzzingaround/yourvoice/isthealarmthatvibrates/throughmybody/likeaninterrogation/thefloors/arelittered/withbrokenhearts/serratededges/slicing/mybarefeet/downricketystairs/Ijimmythelock/toyourpitterpattering/bedroomdoor/theknob/bendingslightly/beneath/myhands/andfall/asleepon/thisemptybedroomfloor


Faith Gómez Clark (she/they) is a ChicanX living and writing with Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known at Multiple Personality Disorder). They earned their MFA in Poetry from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. Their work can be found in Zocalo Public Square, The Acentos Review, forthcoming in Salt Hill Journal, and elsewhere. They live and teach in Austin, Tejas.