hole in the drywall fists redden under a lightning of suspicion time took a linger footed walk her standing here in a nightgown with saline stains. teeth clinch a word as the rabid dog rapes human flesh of all her calm. voices flutter a moth dance: higher broken glass under bare feet. standing, she surmises the size of home is smaller with every empty slamming door. 28-06 [next poem] [words] [menu] [mail] [back a poem] ©Denise Angela Celeste |