Mirror by Robert Beveridge

blood
Mirror
.
Black
under ice
complete
.
choked
chain studded inward
.
brainpan boils
heaves black rot
strike
strike
fist sinks into flesh
finds first
organs
then bone
.
bile burns black
in black light
fingernails tear
scars in yielding flesh
.
blood
melts
.
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Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in Ricochet Review, Poetry Pea, and Cattails, among others.

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