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Repayment
by Amy Zoellers 

blood to bitters

streaming pink

this blood of fog

a healing drink

until the ghost returned

.

a soul dissolves

and must consume

without remorse

her site of doom

where living flesh had burned

.

her poison mists

will ride the air

and seep the ground

and flesh will tear

and burn whoever breathes

.

from guts to lungs

inside to out—

night shudders with

collective shout

of anguish through the trees—

her bile no longer seethes.

Fiction © Copyright Amy Zoellers
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com.

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