The Nose-Cutter

Like the rapist and the molester, a nose-cutter with chilling impulses emerges from mind’s murky nook. He always drops atrocities in his wife-bin. Male chauvinism creates a concentration camp in her kitchen and bed-room. He’s her gadget producing hypertension. Her nose ring is not merely a metal, but a charm-multiplier. Alas! Teeth of his machete take off the tip of her nose, demanding the dowry due, disfiguring… Red woman sap oozes, staining... First published in The Literary Hatchet