Thursday, July 1, 2021

She-Thing

Winds rage purposefully

causing blackened waves

to killer-crash against the boat

defying warnings of a storm

 

Tied to the mast

by jealous hands 

with angry fingers

the she-thing cannot move

 

Only her raven eyes

and sultry mouth

open and shut

as ocean foam meets rain

 

pounding the face

whose eyes had strayed

salting the lips

whose kiss betrayed

 

 

Edgar Allan Poet