Persephone Literary Magazine - Volume I - July 2024 - Dark Issue

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She bunkers down for the long night ahead, when you—

like the sun swallowed by shadow—slink

into your neutered nether-land, whilst she

is kept company by a maddening

metronome, chipping away at the liminal

lining of her limestone skull

like an icepick.

Somewhere between attempting to trap

thoughts of you in a vac-sealed sous-vide sac submerged

in tepid water till the gristly sinews of her fixation

deliquesce—yes, somewhere between that

and the tik tok lobotomy, she drifts

into tempestuous seascapes.

The rowboat of her consciousness unmoored,

she is swept into the gaping mouth of an untamed

ocean, where sea serpents and sirens seduce

and terrify. She sinks

deep—and deeper still, until

dawn glows butterscotch mellow

on the petal-soft lids of her slumbering irises.

Clamshells languidly yawn and her feathered

hoods greet the surfacing dawn, resting

upon fresh poetica proffered: the tender body

of a turtledove, arranged in immolation

at her bedside; neck snapped, breast still

warm. A token of your affection.

Persephone

pines for

STOCKHOLM

Paris Rosemont

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