The Bloody Abyss
For Mike Singleton’s The Up Escalator Challenge
By Stephanie HoogstadPublished 3 months ago • 1 min read
I pick at the scab
Blood trickles down
My porcelain leg
I stare into
The crimson abyss
Left behind
By the pooling mess
To my surprise
The darkness
It stares back
Author’s Note: This poem is for Mike Singleton’s The Up Escalator Challenge. Ends on August 28th! Link below.
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Stephanie Hoogstad
With a BA in English and MSc in Creative Writing, writing is my life. I have edited and ghost written for years with some published stories and poems of my own.
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