hot sun
standing in front of the town hall
chanting
© Rachel Green April 2025
VI.III
Rehydrated skin returns and sores recede
as Horror's face upon her turns to bear;
despite rejection of her Catholic past, her knees
fall to the grimy floor; a wave of fresh despair
sweeps out from deep within the lady's hollow flesh
and knowledge springs unbidden to her mind
a vision of the world about her, made afresh
without the chaos brought by humankind.
What devil from the netherworld is this
she's summoned from a dark, medieval past?
but her memory negates the thought, insists
this apparition from not Hell was cast.
© Rachel Green April 2025
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