tasting rhubarb: Gothic

Sunday, 18 October 2009

Gothic

Soft, bloody fallen petals cling to the damp gravel

like curling flakes of scraped-off skin. Somewhere nearby,

a flayed and thorny creature stumbles in the rain.

4 comments:

Dale said...: And what will she do then, poor thing?

I love this Rose as Frankenstein's Monster image!; 18 October 2009 at 15:01
Rosie said...: And I love the bruised colour of the petals; 18 October 2009 at 17:23
Zhoen said...: Keening for the bee she loved.; 18 October 2009 at 17:26
Lucy said...: How shockingly lovely. And what colour...; 25 October 2009 at 13:08

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