MAGPIE/ Prompt #89

                                                                photo/ Tess Kincaid


LOOKING FOR THE GHOST in the machine..found it!  This PANTOUM is a thank you to Tess at Magpie Tales.


DEVIL IN THE DETAILS

You'll find the trick,
how he weaves himself
into the cracks,
the ruptures, the stigmata.

How he weaves himself.
I see the stain move.
The ruptures, the stigmata,
look away, look back.

I see the stain move
out of the corner of my eye.
Look away, look back,
turn inside out.

Out of the corner of my eye,
I see the color bleed away,
turn inside out,
changes my words.

I see the color bleed away.
He natters a lie into my ear,
changes my words,
fakes my pleasure.

He natters a lie into my ear,
into the cracks,
fakes my pleasure.
You'll find the trick.


A Pantoum is a poetic form, first appeared in the 15th century in Malaysia.  The modern version is a poem of indefinite length and repetition. 


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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Dream On...

ILLUSIONS

X

Water isn't a peril

unless you're drowning in it.

You imagined you could start

your own way of breathing

while riding the waves.

x

Now you want me to save you.

I can say yes,

I can.

x

I know how to put my mouth to wounds

to kiss the damage away.

I myself write notes to saints

x

but every bleeding gash I show

proves less worthy

than the stigmata.

x

Alright, I'll save you.

First time for me too.

x

Step one,

stop nailing smoke to the wall,

then

send flowers to your memories,

and bury them

as if they were a dead princess.

x

x

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