(for Sam)


︎︎︎ Mariah Guarnaccia

︎ Dec 23, 2024

days of starvation
      and excess.
staining eyes, meeting,
with grim salt, cornering our tolerance.
I remember the holes in the walls
and the paint worn through by
throbbing toes.
I remember cornering in all the halls
and looking up at each other,
realizing we’d done it together.














Mariah Guarnaccia lives in the Bay Area among a robust community of drinkers, smokers, and generally upset and dear people. Her poetry is about the sublimation of desire.