One night, as her husband slept,
something came through the window and took the young wife away.
When a detective came to question the husband,
an unidentified military man stood behind in silence.
Through a gauzy haze, a hand was reaching for the young wife’s bare skin.
At first she thought it was her husband.
This thought vanished as soon as the hand touched her.
It felt like a snake’s belly.
She cried out, Where am I?
A voice came to her in her mind.
It tried to sooth her with an odd
lullaby.
When she looked down, she saw that she’d been vivisected by spidery digits.
She could only hoarsely
laugh.
Weeks later, in an asylum,
after she’d been found naked in a field,
she spoke of her organs’ beauty in starlight.
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