The Ladies of Horror
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Bone Fold
by Amy Zoellers 

Gong: hollow echo of footsteps on moss-grown iron

Descent on staircase, spiral with invading flora

Gray echoes gray echoes gray

—gray hand dead on stair rail, gray,

–gray head, streaked white with omens,

Rituals

A ritual descent

A thrilling fervor echos in the woods

An omen.

Tonight, a moon of egress,

Emergence from shadow and moss

An approaching song of vengeance

twisting for the home of the infancy

of this entity—

A pool of horrors

A bath of misery.

The culprits long moss-grown dust

And whoever stumbles nearest there

Tonight

meets what has grown from evil.

Meets with the ire of pain,

Only bumbling ruin.

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

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