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Monstrous Image, Avra Margariti
Keep your eyes on me
I say, those molten cores
Of far-off stars searing
The firmament of her face
Like twin cigarette burns.
Incandescent conundrum,
My Cinderella made of iron,
Oxygen and helium.
Look at me, I say.
I want her to look at me
As I pick up the World Knife
I stole from my unseelie fairy godparent
And rend this universe apart
As if it were a tinfoil crown,
Craft paper gown,
Glass slipper shattered
Into an avalanche of shooting stars.
Never look away, I say
As I remake this world
In my monarch butterfly’s
Monstrous image.
Avra Margariti is a queer author, Greek sea monster, and Pushcart-nominated poet with a fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra’s work haunts publications such as Vastarien, Asimov’s, Liminality, Arsenika, The Future Fire, Space and Time, Eye to the Telescope, and Glittership. “The Saint of Witches”, Avra’s debut collection of horror poetry, is forthcoming from Weasel Press. You can find Avra on twitter (@avramargariti).