Poetry and Prose
Blood Suck
a poem about blood being thicker than water
Her fangs came out at night
rows along the highway
blood burst out in spurts
the evil in the details
Three sisters entrenched in the sight
saw devils challenge desperate fight
Stars gleaming, pointed, sharp
punctured through stillness of dark
Serrated blades, each pearl a sin
tearing through her soft fleshed kin
Rabid as a hound denied obedience.
Reflections echo a mirroring snarl
across the moonless sky
Nor sliver of gold or silver cross
could save that part of my sister’s heart
Her mind broke away from the middle of the road
crashed to the side like a deer in the fork
ran toward the black hole of night
gushing a shame swallowed through life
and now the flesh no longer fresh
sits mangled at my other sister’s neck
This poem was originally published in the Winter 2022 issue of FIYAH Art & Literary magazine
