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.