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Mother Dearerst

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Mother coddles lethargy needles
and poetry knives as bitter night songs
ghost over cracked lips.

The systematic caress of steel tip
trails along the supple
curl of distended belly, teasing.

Cruel metaphor blades delve
into epidermis layer. dull chemical
infatuation slips into the bloodstream.

She quietly releases malignant
melodies. soft ecstasy sighs.

Lacerated fetus chamber
penetrated by inquisitive marrow digits,
secretes liquid-ruby fantasies.

She violates herself, carving
a permanent eulogy into her womb.


Mother tugs at the umbilical cord,
dragging prune shape from her uterus vessel
and into her wire arms. close to breast.

Blue-tinged parasite child shall
dream forever, lulled by solemn notes
dislodged from sluggish tongue.

And mother simply smiles, satisfied.
I have been dreaming of and obsessing over death lately. Not sure why. So strange...

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TaciturnReserve's avatar
Thank you for your submission to #ZealZone!

This is a really really really cool piece.

My one suggestion is to not break the really interesting pattern you have going of only capitalizing the first line of each stanza by doing it in all the stanzas, even the short ones, and especially the final line. Presumably, they are visually separated from the rest of the poem in order to show emphasis, and I think that capitalizing them would only help you show that.
As for punctuation, I think what you've got here is really quite interesting. It really shows how you want the poem to be read. With the exception of maybe changing a few dashes to commas or periods, I think that the punctuation is perfect.

Really good work. Very vivid, very creepy and disturbing, but in a beautiful kind of way. Nice job! :clap: