Kelly Sauvage Moyer

post-coital embrace
the musk
of her undoing

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

Kelly Sauvage Moyer

scrawled sigils
the silence
you should have kept

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

stick figures . . .

she draws her little brother

in a puddle of red

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

Kelly Sauvage Moyer

scrawled sigils
the bleed
of witch’s ink

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

skeleton key . . .

the rusting cage

of consciousness

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

Kelly Sauvage Moyer

’til death . . .
the glint of moonlight
on metal

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

sandbox cemetery

the bad seed’s

dismembered dolls

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

Kelly Sauvage Moyer

her lifeless lips
the bloom
of black roses

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

Kelly Sauvage Moyer

ruby necklace
the slow trickle
of her blood

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

young harvest

a ripple

in the moonwater

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

Kelly Sauvage Moyer

backcountry shelter
a hint of crimson
hangs in the gossamer

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

short-listed

i locate my name

in the book of the dead

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

Kelly Sauvage Moyer

wormholes
a squirm
in the blood-brain barrier

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

giving voice

to your torment

SPiRoCHeTeS

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

Kelly Sauvage Moyer

evensong
the pendulum swings
into stillness

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

starless night

a glint

from the raven’s gold tooth

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

Kelly Sauvage Moyer

ladylike
i step around the stench
of my corpse

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

bloodless

the sorrow that turned

her kettle black

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer