Weak Timid Afraid
by Kathy Slater Neilsen Her skin translucent, veins within, a road map to her heart. The heart I’ve been cast from. I loom over her, wood stake poised. Eyes open, burning, upon me. “Get off.” She flicks me aside, a broken, pathetic mortal. “Turn me” I plead. “If you love me, turn me.” “Love? […]