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James (HVR)'s avatar

Phew on that ending. I didn't see it going there.

Kasu (small wounds)'s avatar

Haha 💜 a bit of a curveball

Salem Grey's avatar

Beautiful.

Kasu (small wounds)'s avatar

Thank you 🥰

Chris Heape's avatar

Kasu,

Thanks for sharing.

These pieces feel quieter than some of your earlier work, but also deeper and more structurally controlled.

There is a subtle yet significant shift in these texts.

They’re imbued with a sense of emotional permeability.

Not simply emotion itself, but the feeling that boundaries between people, bodies, memory, longing, and identity are becoming unstable.

That’s where these texts gain their force.

The Structural Shift:

What’s immediately striking is that these fragments no longer operate as isolated observations.

They form a sequence of deepening states.

What impresses me is how much emotional pressure they carry without needing to explain themselves.

The sequence moves less like separate poems and more like a slow opening or unfolding state.

Especially:

your mouth finds

places that opened

before you

and:

I can’t tell

where I end

when you linger.

Both trust implication rather than declaration – and that’s where your writing becomes most powerful.

Best, Chris.

Kasu (small wounds)'s avatar

Thank you as always 💜

Chris Heape's avatar

Kasu,

Thanks for sharing.

These pieces feel quieter than some of your earlier work, but also deeper and more structurally controlled.

There is a subtle yet significant shift in these texts.

They’re imbued with a sense of emotional permeability.

Not simply emotion itself, but the feeling that boundaries between people, bodies, memory, longing, and identity are becoming unstable.

That’s where these texts gain their force.

The Structural Shift:

What’s immediately striking is that these fragments no longer operate as isolated observations.

They form a sequence of deepening states.

What impresses me is how much emotional pressure they carry without needing to explain themselves.

The sequence moves less like separate poems and more like a slow opening or unfolding state.

Especially:

your mouth finds

places that opened

before you

and:

I can’t tell

where I end

when you linger.

Both trust implication rather than declaration – and that’s where your writing becomes most powerful.

Best, Chris.

Saint Citrus's avatar

“you hold me as if trying to reach through me” is SUCH a devastating line wow

your writing always feels like standing too close to someone’s inner world in the best way. intimate without overexplaining itself. it trusts the reader to feel it instead of spelling it out ✨

Kasu (small wounds)'s avatar

Thank you 🥰

Keiichiro Iwamoto's avatar

Hey Kasu, good evening. I felt like this poem really captured your unique style, that strange, mysterious, slightly unsettling feeling you’re so good at creating. Sorry if that sounds a little rude, I mean it in a good way.

Kasu (small wounds)'s avatar

Thank you 🥰 I’m really hapoy you enjoy my works!

The Beautifully Broken Bastard's avatar

Wow. Incredible work.

This one stanza hit me like a truck

“sometimes I can’t tell

if you want me

or what I carry

you hold me

as if trying

to reach through me”

Gods the way you described that feeling is fascinating and I’m genuinely shook.

“Or what I carry”

Gods that keeps replaying in my head. Incredible work

I’m going through what I can now, but you have been in my radar for so long and I’ve wanted to really dive into your works for eons now

And u don’t disappoint!

Kasu (small wounds)'s avatar

I'm honored and very happy you feel that way. Thank you 💜

Elijah Westin's avatar

Short, beautiful and heartbreaking..

The places we share's avatar

Love the way it navigates the subtle confusion in a romantic relationship. Brave of you to take that on. Brava.

Kasu (small wounds)'s avatar

💜 thank you

Ella Thompson's avatar

“I can’t tell

where I end

when you linger.”

this hurts my soul in a way that feels healing. in a way that makes me thank you <3

Kasu (small wounds)'s avatar

Thank you 💜💜💜💜🥹

Dean M's avatar

Pure Kasu beauty.

The Boxpress Manifesto's avatar

Very sensual. Can I say erotic? Wonderfully written.

Kasu (small wounds)'s avatar

Thank you 💜

Jonas Gage's avatar

This is so vivid, love it. I had this strange image in my mind yesterday of a hand reaching out of one’s mouth to cover their own face, this kinda captured that beautiful strangeness.

Kasu (small wounds)'s avatar

Thank you 💜💜💜

Cierra Angeline's avatar

"A wound in bloom" 🥲🩶