candygirl
// enter the chamber //
DESCENDIT
annunciation
every girl is a small goddess.
every goddess deserves a marble shrine
in the deep.
VOCATIO
reliquary
a glass tooth, a foil wrapper, a lock of hair
a polaroid of warm rooms now flooded
a chrome rhinestone shaped like devotion
a single pearl that holds all the lost songs
your name written in salt, refusing to dissolve
SERVATIO
goddess hall
// horizontal passage //
VENUS-MARINA
she who walks the trench
PEARL-DIANA
guardian of the cardiac tide
CHROME-HESTIA
keeper of the candlelit fold
TRINITAS
pearl cascade
we wrap each truffle in foil so the world knows it was loved.
a locket worn close enough to take on the rhythm of a heart.
chrome on the lip of a tide, a halo finding its girl.
deep water remembers your name even when you forget.
every breath you take down here is a small offering.
CADERE
inscription
SI ME LEGIS · TU ES DEA
if you are reading this :: you are the goddess
— stamped in trench-blue 200 BCE / 2004 / forever
EPIGRAPHIA
ascension
marble dissolves to chrome.
chrome rises as breath.
we will meet again in shallower water.
ASCENSIO