When Lavender Last in the Landfill Grew
alliterative allusion
Daughter is the cruelest role,
crucifying mother on either side
of the solstice, breeding half-truths and lies
into destabilizing psychological space.
Hurling hurtful obscenities, words wielded for wounding,
layers upon layers of malicious muddled memories,
indictments for nonexistent incidents;
betrayal for its own sake, built around
one brutal truth, a scimitar sanctioning
silent suffering, sacrifice scrutinized as insufficient to satisfy self-serving innocently sinister stepmonsters circling servers, slanting and slandering sacred stations into salacious salutations
Slyly spilt skill.
Accused of strength.
Condemned for knowledge, a soul sister of Eve.
Grendel’s dam melodiously sweet in comparison;
the Wife of Bath refined, Daphne a whore.
Persephone ascends from autumnal slumber.
About the Creator
Harper Lewis
Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!
Intrusive rhyme bothers me, except as a weapon.
Intertextuality is my passion.
Formalist/ New Critical are my guiding theories.
My words are mine, not a robot’s.
MA English literature, CofC
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