Best Poems Written by Manzanita Mcmahon

Revenge of the Silent

Did she tell you
she is simply a gruesome puppet
painted shut and suffocating
within her own fossiled bones

and did she whisper
a cathedral full of lies
breathing them out through
the hollow of her slashed red mouth

she will dreamily clad her 
collapsed corpse
untill the corsets strangle her
and she is two halves

you may never fully hear
the skitish rythum of her blood
easing as it circles
and halts eternally in drying veins

and she will never fully close
a defeated flower brittle
as her lost voice
yet sipping eternally upon your attention

Copyright © Manzanita Mcmahon | Year Posted 2007