No One Sees Her

NO ONE SEES HER

    her essence
flickers in the shadows.

camouflage
               green, addictive eyes

cobwebbed
   in the corner
of a seedy porch,
                             alien.
is it terror that bellows from this balled up figurine, has the devil hollowed out her inner light?
should she be brought out into the day would we hear her vampiric scream — the sun like a cross. the shock of a youth who stares with glossed over eyes, bundled up, so no one will see her the clink of light-ning fast shoes, chatter and laughter like gloom. nameless in the darkest place of noon. no one sees her but me. 10/5/2019
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Hind Avatar
August 16, 2024 at 7:01 PM
This has me feeling a lot of empathy. How heartaching...
Krutsinger Avatar
October 7, 2019 at 12:22 PM
" is it terror that bellows from this balled up figurine, has the devil hollowed out her inner light?" - this happens more often than we ever know. Nurture her for all of us.
Rodrigues Avatar
October 7, 2019 at 2:42 PM
Praying for her...this image was so sad
Awtry Avatar
October 7, 2019 at 6:45 AM
Kim this is interestingly different and eery... You've woven the thrills of the season into what hints at something truly terrible...
Rodrigues Avatar
October 7, 2019 at 6:48 AM
And based upon what I really saw which was terrifyingly dark!
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