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!

Rosie said...

And I love the bruised colour of the petals

Zhoen said...

Keening for the bee she loved.

Lucy said...

How shockingly lovely. And what colour...