Dance in the Full Moon

O, the Frailty of Memory

Saturday, January 12, 2013

1.12

Seeming strange: the open lid of her head spilled secrets to me in a proliference of morbid curiosity reversed. I learned about her death and the maligned light of her afterlife, all the while conscious of squish and squelch. Sad, I stitched scalp and sewed smile until she, alone with her thoughts, built myriad castles in a dark, cold room.

3 comments:

  1. I especially like the unexpected reversal of "dark, cold" instead of the almost-cliche of "cold, dark."

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  2. Correct. And Katy, I didn't even think about that.
    I wrote this one on accident and wrote the other on purpose.

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