Pseudopsychosis.

A heart.

Moon empties her woodsmoke arms
like blood fingers from a pale mist
	I smudge air over the old drawer
	drugged by grief like Mary Shelley
	
	…but you had mine;
		it’s a schizo wind now
	caviling my girl; my own madness
		lies ill, she murmurs.
 
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Revised 6/15/2021

Moon empties her woodsmoke arms
 like blood fingers from a pale mist
	I smudge air over the old drawer
	drugged grief, like Mary Shelley
	
	…but you had mine
deadlocked to fringes of my thumb
	caviling my girl; my own madness
		lies ill, she murmurs.

© 2021 lucysworks.com All Rights Reserved.

Written for the 6/14/2021 dVerse quadrille prompt.

I wanted to write about an unrequited infatuation or love once I remembered that Mary Shelley supposedly kept her dead husband’s heart in her drawer.

Romantic.

I think this will be a draft I’ll work on again. Maybe today or another time. I don’t know.

Lucy

“Poetess of darkness”–dVerse community; cat hoarder, guitarist, keyboardist, psych major.

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53 responses to “A heart.”

    • Ah, Glenn! I do not know what to say. I love that name though–Mistress Poe, but I’m far from it. Thank you, though, for the compliments and feedback.

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  11. Moon empties her woodsmoke arms
    like blood fingers from a pale mist

    Love your classic way of saying it, like ‘woodsmoke arms’ and ‘blood fingers’, brilliant word connections, Lucy. You did it throughout your poem. LOvely take, Ma’am!

    Hank

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  16. Keeping a husband’s heart in a drawer takes ‘crazy love’ to the next level! Deliciously dark. I love both versions and I cannot choose between them. Maybe they could be a series?

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