Adrienne Wilkinson

reading the markers of autism in girls, i become 🝦

a nun picking roses 🝦 her hands are many small stigmata 🝦 that is the feeling of outside on her skin 🝦 wrapping her head in fabric makes her feel closer to god 🝦 in this version of things god is becoming overwhelmed by her own experience of herself 🝦 her manifestations 🝦 when sunset is pooling down glistening 🝦 rose struck 🝦 the sky is the colour of her old school uniform 🝦 she understands suddenly why it was always so hard 🝦 noisy 🝦 the safety of the stone nunnery of silence 🝦 of not being god getting overwhelmed by the noises of the bus 🝦 the beautiful babies screaming being a tiny drop of water bending 🝦 reflecting endlessly 🝦 maybe she has found the reason why she was able to create something so huge so overwhelming something moving in so many directions of red perfect symmetry then suddenly blood

ADRIENNE WILKINSON is a UK based poet. She has written repeating mouths (Broken Sleep, 2021) and forthcoming lover / priory (Broken Sleep, 2025). Her poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. Find her on instagram @ghoa.stt.