Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

trailing behind
the bone collector
our missing teeth

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

last rites

escaping with a whoosh

my held breath

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

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uninvited guest
growing louder — the knock
in my knees

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far off stare

the lighthouse keeper’s

fatal slip

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plague rat
the barn owl’s 
last meal

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a parting gift
from a spurned lover
neckless

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wise beyond her years early grave

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grim work
rising and falling
the reaper’s scythe 

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her mind

gets carried away

autopsy

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the way
her blood shimmers
microplastics 

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tucked inside

a tree hollow

the horseman’s head

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empty tavern 
twitching with recollection 
the barkeep’s tail

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death grip

clattering to the floor

a rosary

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pooling at my feet the dread

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skinny dip

slowly peeling off

the leeches

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singing lullabies 
to herself
ghost child 

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

the cat claws itself free tenth life

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

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dry heaves 
a spider tickles 
my tonsils

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fresh meat

the organ grinder’s

side gig

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dollhouse what the plastic baby saw

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crawlspace

the chittering

grows louder

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untimely death 
the bone clock
wrings its hands

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

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midnight 
feeding upon
the bone saw’s scraps

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

sweetening

the pot

arsenic

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Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

around
the corpses
fitted sheets

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tap tap tap

the mausoleum walls

answer me back

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui