old home

hell is a vast landscape of monochromatic mountains
they contrast nicely with the cinnamon candy sky

there is a small red house in the woods
the sun never rises, nor does the moon

in this eternal darkness, the demons of tommorow find shelter
they burrow into the stone foundation
and cry

no one can hear them, just as no one can hear the
shreiks radiating from the top of the mountain

someone is being eaten alive
torn limb from limb and strewn about lke
woodchips on a playground

silence becomes distant and life glimmers faintly before being
extinguished by the green, bubbling pool
of self-destruction
 

lily veronica

MA

YWP Alumni

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  • close your eyes and look

    cold water that washes my skin with kisses
    the way my lungs beg for air, and yet i refuse.

    sitting on slightly Damp Grass at the very top of a hill. 
    it was warm and it was dark and the sun set on the mountains like a king 
  • Another Person

    They said it would get easier

    A prickle, a soundless wind

    says otherwise

    Fingers, individually cold

    warm when wrapped ‘round my wrist

    Clouds of locusts that

    squeeze out every 

    single