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Panchreston<br />
by Lily Hardy, 12d<br />
There couldn’t have been anything to it.<br />
There wasn’t.<br />
I had to believe that those bowed lips<br />
Had parted at the wrong moment in time,<br />
Revealing those pale teeth that so boldly clattered and<br />
Shifted with your yellow tongue.<br />
Like heavy, scarlet curtains unveiling the<br />
Actors before everyone is in their proper place<br />
You slipped.<br />
Dissonantly, malevolently, your putrid mouth<br />
Slings glass at my head and I can<br />
Feel every shard sink deep into my meat.<br />
My skull aches<br />
My heart quakes<br />
And I can feel my body tighten and stretch<br />
Pulsing with hurt.<br />
These ropes twist, thick and purple with saturation.<br />
Back and forth and forth and back<br />
The fire crawls along the wires<br />
We tremble.<br />
Locked and loose<br />
Our swallowed hearts hide in our bellies,<br />
Feeding a fear, feeding our hunger for hurt.<br />
They beat against us, but we beat them back.<br />
Fibers rip, our tissues swell<br />
My eyes undo themselves<br />
Kaleidoscope<br />
The heat, the color,<br />
We feed the animal.<br />
Art by Zoe<br />
Schneidereit,<br />
12d<br />
Art by Ella<br />
Jackson, 9c<br />
HAYWIRE Issue <strong>11</strong> <strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Art by Lucy<br />
Defty, <strong>11</strong>a<br />
Art by Lucy<br />
Defty, <strong>11</strong>a<br />
Art by Zoe Schneidereit, 12d<br />
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