My name is Katie West and I am a photographer and writer living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with my two cats. I like Star Trek a lot. Also dancing, monochromatic colour schemes, wearing every pattern in the world at the same time, grocery shopping, autumn, Canadian comedic television shows, bad movies and Korean pop music. Among a billion other things.i remember the way the vast expanse of terrible carpet overwhelmed our room
the mirrored closet doors that caught my horror just in time to throw it back to me
the wretched ceiling fan that loved us as much as it could muster on late nights in july
but this
this was september
all that was left was the mattress
i made everything else disappear
the hangers in the closet seemed almost like they would lose their grip
as they dangled naked
i vacuumed the pink square of floor three times
to avoid leaving behind an an errant earring
for you to find months later
but the mattress
it sat unflinching in the middle of the room
lost with the absence of our bodies
it’s white expanse chiseled into perfect right angles
like a block of ice that refused to melt(submitted by Star St. Germain)
Sometimes I wish there was just one thing that Star wasn’t any good at.
