draining the pellets of iron from your seas.
The disruption of the strained synapses and
splintery thoughts drained the maiden from your eyes
and shrunk your skin while applying grey dye
to your rubber shell to match the internal cloud
you kept from raining.
Clay Hunt is a poet from the wastelands of Modesto, California. He has
works published in the literary journals Penumbra and Song of the San
Joaquin. His father had various mental illnesses and Hunt himself battles
with ADHD. A Red Witch was inspired by a meeting with a specific
person who was physically sick, as well as having a manic episode. The
poem became cursed and spawned into its own entity, but the initial meeting
with Hunt's friend inspired this writing.
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