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She Awakens
Julie Shiel
The colors are drowning,
Fading to twilight shadows
And monochrome memories
Of days half digested.
You stretch from your corner,
Rattle chains in the liquid room
Where you are tethered,
Your first breath mercury
Fracturing into
Preternatural starshine.
You exhale bitter worlds,
Coalescing into moons
And unexplored imprecisions
Of nocturnal desires.
Author Bio
Julie Shiel lives in Maryland with three cats and two sugar gliders. When not writing, she engages in urban exploration and other questionable activities. Her work appears in over 100 magazines and anthologies including Brutarian, Mythic Delirium, Aoife’s Kiss, Cthulhu Sex and many others. Her poetry collections, aptly titled Disturbed and Psychoentropy are available through The Genre Mall.
Please visit her on the web at http://www.horrorseek.com/horror/julieshiel/.
Read other poems by Julie
Autumn Night
Diana
Enchantment
Jack o'lanterns
Luna
My Night Garden
Not of this World
Rainmaker
The Changling
The Dryad
The Morrigan
The Wild Hunt
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