Sunday, March 3, 2013

Taste of Torture

She haunts through tapestries, a ghost with form.
A nightmare. Beautiful and sharp revenge.
Her blade in moonlight, twist of wrist, she grins.

A slice! A stab! The florid fountain spills.
Releasing, stained with pain and blood, she laughs
At purled screaming, lighting eyes abright.

In death he writhes. And no one comes: not Death,
Not God--just her. A laughing, dripping taste
Of torture soaks across her spectral smile.


~Lorna Marie Larson

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