Tourniquet
do you mind?
your strawberries bleeding
on my shirt and you
drip like vampire
If I want to look
like a stab
victim I will drive
to San Diego
for six dollars
a bucket
I can bleed up
and down
coastal towns
until I forget
what it is that hurts
I wipe my mouth
with my sleeve
how incarnadine
an orchid blooming
a wound
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Mike Mortensen by profession, is a mental health therapist who works with addictions and trauma. When not at work Mike enjoys writing/reading poetry, spending time with his wife and daughter, being outside, and can usually be found knee deep in a book. Past publications include Ink&Nebula, and a multiple discipline art gallery at the University of Arizona, Tuscon.