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The Girl Who Howled by K. S. Keeney

Posted on Feb 19, 2017Feb 14, 2019 by K. S. Keeney

Mothers anticipate the bittersweet, but when I opened my throat, she shut my mouth. Children are so wild. Stuffed it with cloth. Then, she sent it home. Branch-broken, run wild, cry into the night. Sometimes wolves would answer. I slept in a burnt-out hutch, learning a witch’s charred secrets. I yipped their philosophy at the […]

Lilith, Proserpine, Venus by K. S. Keeney

Posted on Jan 8, 2017Feb 14, 2019 by K. S. Keeney

Straighten the nose and push together the soft rosebud lips. Brush, with a touch hardly there, the auburn locks. Make sure her eyes are a little limpid, will you? Not wistful enough, needs more tortured longing. Is she soft enough? Put some fat in the jawline. Is this to be accusation? She gets the sharp […]