LOTTIE STEPHENS

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Breathing Underwater: A Poetry Anthology (2025)

The Collector

Puddles and puddles

wash the streets of filthy habits

Licking paper stained teeth

Yellow fingertips

I can’t settle for the silence

Nervous ticks and tricks

Callouses dry and picked

Tapping toes

Chewed up lips

My addictions ebb and flow

Flood and sink

Eat and fuck smoke and drink

I crave their touch

Sweat intermingled

Heavy breathing hips lowered

Pinned down butterfly wings

A flash of when I see white

I know this kink

Allows me to be without having to think.