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Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge!

In the Dead of the Night
by Rie Sheridan Rose
The silent night
Closes around me
Damp with the mists
Of midnight.
.
Reversing the days
To a quieter time.
Cigarette smoke
Drifts upward as I walk.
.
My footfalls click
On the concrete sidewalk.
On the hunt…
Looking for souls.
.
I hunger for more
Than souls.
It’s been too long
Since I have fed.
.
Fiction © Copyright Rie Sheridan Rose
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A terrific, intriguing poem.
Such atmospheric words – they match the prompt perfectly.