Peter D. Marra

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Hiroshima


She
stares
at
the shadows

permanently
etched
in the sidewalk.

Blood and pebbles
laugh back at her.

embedded in the
black light glow.

the figurine smiles back at her;

Memories of where she went wrong:
Where
she
did
wrong and
When she did pain.

And she likes it –
the slight
spine-chill

Dark
eye
circles
and

the savory destruction.


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dr. schnooks

dr.
schnooks
the
cherub
tidbit

she writhes
in laughter and

writhes in agony
sitting in the antechoir

laughing
at
the
pious

dr.
schnooks
straightens
her
red
corset

and black stockings
the kind
with the seam up the back leg.

‘40’s

it doesn’t feel good anymore

the skin slips off
the darkness
comes.
out.

the body revealed

the skull and the bones

lie down in the arms of a mother

and try to get home
lie down in the arms and try to get home
to lick away the marble tears.