Talk Therapy

They say not to let your heart bleed onto the pages, but here I am doing it anyway.

When my well is overflowing with star-covered words, my fingers bleed them out. They implant themselves on white or cream paper, crying out, wanting to be heard like a hungry child in the middle of the night. But then the words flutter away like a cabbage white butterfly during Spring.

They're supposed to come back. I need them to come back.

Talk Therapy is an open letter that captures a sliver of what it's like living with a mind that's a black monster. Talk Therapy is also Angel-Clare Linton's second poetry collection.