Birds hold razor blades inside their mouths.
Chirps turn into screams.

Tree branches have suicidal impulses,
bang the dead nests in my head.

In my dreams, there are hundreds of orgasmic seizures.
The razor blade hardens into a chainsaw. 

Juliet Cook's poetry has appeared in lots of print and online publications. She is the author of quite a few poetry chapbooks, recently including "Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails" (The Poet's Haven, 2019), "The Rabbits with Red Eyes" (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2020) and "Histrionics Inside my Interior City" (part of Ghost City Press's 2020 Summer Micro-Chapbook Series). Her most recent full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" was published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018. She is brimming with black, grey, silver, purple, and dark red explosions. You can find out more at www.JulietCook.weebly.com.