Mirror

Frankly madam,

I don’t recognize

that drained beast

heaving grief soaked breaths

into the mirror.

Cant you see her?

Was I the only one

now to witness the pain

flit across my bloody ears?

She twitches and

stutters,

looks through your eyes

down to your mouth

and into your throat.

She knows you then

and stays there

because she had no other home

to hide in,

no cave dark and safe enough

to thrust her naked body into

and sigh relief.

Shes everywhere now,

whispering across the faces

of my fellow elders

who have seen hell,

mirror,

mirror,

all over you wander,

and I weep

Wild

We made love first

in the cemeteries of Salem

with the mists created of weeping angels,

rain falls ever so delicately

against our shoulders

as our mouths water pleasure.

I was a harlot heretic then

and no one

could remember my name.

some such pleasant signifier,

someone to call out to

in the dark

when the winter comes wailing.

Did my blustery bones

wake up?

I stitch them

back together

in the midnight hours,

under the mushroom where

dust and grime

are shaken off

in protest and

defiance

and our eyes

open to the wide wild world.

Candlelight

Stay with me,
I beg you.

Remind this old n

haggard witch

that love or hope

does exist

outside,

somewhere,

in the blue haze,

under the mushroom

of that sensical caterpillar.

With my people

lost forever at sea,

I stagger to the beat

of the elite,

backed into cobweb corners,

suffocating in the deep dark.

Im buzzing with

bad memories,

trauma visions,

on and on

into the morning.

And the hate

was too great

around the globe

spitting out at each other

with harshness, so

I ate through

copper wire,

arsenic laced pencils,

fairytale and telling

lunchboxes,

and drank diesel

with cup and saucer,

of course my dear,

til twilight.

I was walking around

with a blazing fire

on my back,

making me twitch

and freak,

hide in my closet

with the candles

praying to some unknown magic,

til the candles started

lighting themselves

and I sighed in relief.