Her heart will be pierced often
as a seamstresses pincushion.
Her bones grow leathery
as dead men’s fingers.
Her lips never taste the truth of love.
When eyes bruise the waxing moon
she will be sewn inside a mattress-
of
harvestmen and jagged thorns.
While outside-
the world will sigh under
the weight of its heavy garments.
Bio
Theresa Donnelly is
an Irish/Canadian poet who spends her time between Waterville, Co. Kerry and
Brooklin, Ontario. Her work has been widley published on both sides of the
Atlantic. She is the author of two poetry books, Moon Witch and Other Scary
Poems and Recurrence of Blue. Growing up in Dublin, the city of
Dracula’s Bram Stoker definitely influenced and fed her appetite for the
macabre www.theresadonnelly.com
Eerie........ intriguing I want to know more! Who is she... what happened to her?
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