the hermit witch -------------------------------------------
She had one hanging tooth
crookedly valiant against her raw gums
and it shook her smile on its axis
a gaping filth-hole to oblivion's gate
her veins throbbed under pale skin
like knot-holed roots under the ash tree
her limbs laid sagging at her sides
as sinister shadow-casters
rotting the soil and letting the worms thrive
her sockets were charred coals
gray and spent
having long forgotten the faces
of the dead and dying
and when she stares at you
she stares through you
she listens to the air you displace
and grimaces at the disturbance
her apathy keeps the pace of fools
and her mind fled with all emotion
now she wanders, blind
muttering foul curses to the wind
its movement is nature's taunt
to the stale witch of the ages
Submission Name: the hermit witch
